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Viewing Album:  Cabooses
 
By:Tom Beckett
Dates:1/1/1977 - 5/19/2011
Album Info:Buggies, hacks, crummies, cabins, vans, whatever you want to call them. Some in service, some stuffed and mounted.
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Rolling downhill
Title:  Rolling downhill
Description:  Sometimes a train would get a caboose, even in the mid 80s, such as this eastbound rolling off the Berkshire summit toward Springfield.
Photo Date:  8/20/1985  Upload Date: 10/6/2014 1:10:14 AM
Location:  Washington, MA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Action
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Views:  132   Comments: 0
Not long for the world
Title:  Not long for the world
Description:  This Maine Central caboose was trailing MEBU at Endwell in November 1985. By this time, cabooses on road trains were a rarity. While I would see them on trains into the early 90s, it did not happen often.
Photo Date:  11/5/1985  Upload Date: 10/14/2014 2:35:29 AM
Location:  Endwell, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  172   Comments: 0
Ex Pennsy car
Title:  Ex Pennsy car
Description:  This ex PRR caib was right at home in Sunnyside, about to head through Penn Station on the rear of the Ringling Bros circus train.
Photo Date:  12/6/1985  Upload Date: 10/14/2014 2:27:13 AM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  176   Comments: 0
AB&B buggy
Title:  AB&B buggy
Description:  This Akron & Barberton Belt caboose was at Barberton. Looks like an ex Wabash car.
Photo Date:  2/15/1986  Upload Date: 11/14/2014 1:50:07 AM
Location:  Barberton, OH
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  102   Comments: 0
BN waycar
Title:  BN waycar
Description:  The caboose on the southbound train that had just passed. There were still quite a few of these in use at the time. I think I saw more trains with cabooses than without. This one appears to have been recently painted.
Photo Date:  2/19/1986  Upload Date: 11/10/2014 3:03:17 AM
Location:  Lenexa, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  137   Comments: 0
Local waycar
Title:  Local waycar
Description:  The locals always got cabooses, especially this one, since with the power in the middle of the train, they had to do a lot of reverse moves.
Photo Date:  2/19/1986  Upload Date: 11/10/2014 3:05:14 AM
Location:  Lenexa, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  136   Comments: 1
Stainless
Title:  Stainless
Description:  KCS had a group of stainless steel cabooses, which were distinctive and could blind you in the sun. My luck was usually that I saw the good stuff on cloudy days, so I was pretty safe!!
Photo Date:  2/19/1986  Upload Date: 11/14/2014 1:54:14 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  161   Comments: 0
Milwaukee van
Title:  Milwaukee van
Description:  A train running through Southwest Jct has this distinctive van on the rear.
Photo Date:  2/19/1986  Upload Date: 11/14/2014 1:59:25 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  199   Comments: 0
SP car
Title:  SP car
Description:  The SP train on Rock trackage rights carried this caboose into KC. Note the radio antenna. The aliens have landed!! Also of note is the CR bilevel open top auto rack. Don't see those any more.
Photo Date:  2/19/1986  Upload Date: 11/10/2014 3:08:38 AM
Location:  Bonner Springs, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  200   Comments: 0
Caboose on the way west
Title:  Caboose on the way west
Description:  This empty coal train headed west on the MP has a UP bay window caboose bringing up the rear. Cabooses were a place many roads put safety slogans, as this car shows.
Photo Date:  2/19/1986  Upload Date: 11/10/2014 3:12:55 AM
Location:  Bonner Springs, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  210   Comments: 0
Harbinger
Title:  Harbinger
Description:  In a foreshadowing of events nearly 10 years hence, a Santa Fe caboose brings up the rear of a BN train on the ex Frisco.
Photo Date:  2/20/1986  Upload Date: 11/12/2014 3:22:03 AM
Location:  Olathe, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  206   Comments: 0
Double duty
Title:  Double duty
Description:  An eastbound Rio Grande trackage rights train has two cabooses as it passes Wagstaff on the ex Mopac
Photo Date:  2/20/1986  Upload Date: 11/12/2014 3:24:13 AM
Location:  Wagstaff, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  917   Comments: 1
Not much for accomodations
Title:  Not much for accomodations
Description:  The Rio Grande train I had just shot met this westbound UP train with an ex MP "outhouse on a raft". Bet those guys wished they were on the DRGW train!!
Photo Date:  2/20/1986  Upload Date: 11/12/2014 3:26:36 AM
Location:  Wagstaff, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  211   Comments: 1
Coal train buggy
Title:  Coal train buggy
Description:  This westbound empty coal train had a UP pool caboose bringing up the markers.
Photo Date:  2/20/1986  Upload Date: 11/12/2014 3:28:59 AM
Location:  Osawatomie, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  190   Comments: 0
And a caboose
Title:  And a caboose
Description:  There were still cabooses on many trains, even as late as 1986, though they had pretty much disappeared on the road trains.
Photo Date:  4/1/1986  Upload Date: 11/17/2014 3:55:19 AM
Location:  Iona Island (Rocklan, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Action
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Views:  140   Comments: 0
CR caboose
Title:  CR caboose
Description:  This bay window caboose was trailing a work train at Allentown yard
Photo Date:  5/20/1986  Upload Date: 11/19/2014 2:50:56 PM
Location:  Allentown Hump Yard, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Action
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Views:  103   Comments: 1
Trailing into Enola
Title:  Trailing into Enola
Description:  This eastbound has passes the Rockville bridge and will shortly be in Enola yard.
Photo Date:  6/3/1986  Upload Date: 12/1/2014 1:45:03 AM
Location:  Marysville, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Action
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Views:  149   Comments: 0
CN on CV
Title:  CN on CV
Description:  Central Vermont was one of CNs US subsidiaries, and sometimes got run through equipment. The power was an on and off affair, sometimes running to Palmer, sometimes to St Albans. The cabooses commonly ran to Palmer, as did this one seen at Belchertown Mass on train 444. Note the "international service" stenciled under the cupola.
Photo Date:  6/17/1986  Upload Date: 11/21/2014 3:10:32 AM
Location:  Belchertown, MA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  192   Comments: 0
B&O caboose
Title:  B&O caboose
Description:  A Chessie painted B&O car trails this westbound coal train at Point of Rocks, the first of two B&O bay window cars I'd see that day.
Photo Date:  6/24/1986  Upload Date: 11/25/2014 12:01:13 AM
Location:  Point of Rocks, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  95   Comments: 0
B&O car headed for Philly
Title:  B&O car headed for Philly
Description:  A Chessie painted B&O caboose rolls north off Conrail to the B&O.
Photo Date:  6/24/1986  Upload Date: 11/28/2014 2:30:10 AM
Location:  Washington, DC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  106   Comments: 0
C&O car
Title:  C&O car
Description:  This C&O car was trailing the Orange Blossom Special northbound.
Photo Date:  6/24/1986  Upload Date: 11/28/2014 2:34:57 AM
Location:  Washington, DC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
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Views:  106   Comments: 0
B&O caboose
Title:  B&O caboose
Description:  The second B&O car of the day was bringing up the rear of a westbound merchandise train at Point of Rocks
Photo Date:  6/24/1986  Upload Date: 11/25/2014 12:05:03 AM
Location:  Point of Rocks, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  86   Comments: 0
Pennsy cabin
Title:  Pennsy cabin
Description:  This ex Pennsy cabin car is right at home where the wire once hung. Check the Frisco box just ahead of it.
Photo Date:  6/24/1986  Upload Date: 11/28/2014 2:36:51 AM
Location:  Washington, DC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
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Views:  138   Comments: 0
Pool car
Title:  Pool car
Description:  As CSX took over the operations of Chessie and Seaboard, their cabooses ran all over, though it was not uncommon even before CSX to see Seaboard cars on the RFP, such as this one at Alexandria
Photo Date:  6/24/1986  Upload Date: 11/28/2014 2:41:07 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  392   Comments: 0
355s cabolse
Title:  355s cabolse
Description:  Virginia still had a law on the books at the time requiring cabooses, so Virginia was buggy heaven for a while. Southern train 355 has passed Manassas station, seen to the left, punctuated by a standard red Southern car.
Photo Date:  6/24/1986  Upload Date: 12/1/2014 1:51:54 AM
Location:  Manassas, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  163   Comments: 0
Local buggy
Title:  Local buggy
Description:  The Manassas based local out to Strasburg VA has this slightly sun washed car teday. Note the small lettering at the upper right of the body-CG for Central of Georgia. Southern was known for sublettering their power for subsidiaries; it extended to cabooses. too.
Photo Date:  6/24/1986  Upload Date: 12/1/2014 1:53:32 AM
Location:  Manassas, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5105(GP38-2)
Views:  383   Comments: 0
Well, its a place to ride
Title:  Well, its a place to ride
Description:  The local that just came through Utica doesnt have much for crew accomodations, just this outhouse on a raft.
Photo Date:  7/1/1986  Upload Date: 12/2/2014 3:54:43 AM
Location:  Utica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Action
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Views:  143   Comments: 0
Wide vision on the James River line
Title:  Wide vision on the James River line
Description:  This wide vision car brought up the rear on a westbound near Big Island. The brakeman gives a friendly wave as he rolls past toward Clifton Forge.
Photo Date:  9/13/1986  Upload Date: 12/12/2014 2:50:19 AM
Location:  Big Island, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  105   Comments: 0
Southern car
Title:  Southern car
Description:  This Southern caboose trails an eastbound on the NW just topping the grade at Montvale, east of Roanoke.
Photo Date:  9/13/1986  Upload Date: 12/12/2014 2:54:32 AM
Location:  Montvale, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  152   Comments: 0
B&O car
Title:  B&O car
Description:  This one was on a train with Chessie power, so must have run through.
Photo Date:  9/14/1986  Upload Date: 12/12/2014 2:40:01 AM
Location:  Collier Yard, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  132   Comments: 0
C&O car
Title:  C&O car
Description:  One of several Id see that day, trails a southbound train that had Seaboard power. Cabooses seemed to pool on what was now CSX, and any component roads car sould show up.
Photo Date:  9/14/1986  Upload Date: 12/12/2014 2:42:55 AM
Location:  Collier Yard, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  126   Comments: 1
B&O car
Title:  B&O car
Description:  This B&O caboose was trailing a northbound that had Seaboard power. Check the MILW trailer just ahead of the caboose.
Photo Date:  9/14/1986  Upload Date: 12/12/2014 2:43:55 AM
Location:  Collier Yard, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  166   Comments: 0
C&O bay window
Title:  C&O bay window
Description:  This bay window car trailed a southbound, also with Seaboard power.
Photo Date:  9/14/1986  Upload Date: 12/12/2014 2:46:06 AM
Location:  Collier Yard, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  89   Comments: 0
Seaboard System surprise
Title:  Seaboard System surprise
Description:  Every once in a while, something different would turn up, such as this Clinchfiled caboose trailing a soutbound pig train.
Photo Date:  9/14/1986  Upload Date: 12/12/2014 2:48:06 AM
Location:  Collier Yard, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  224   Comments: 0
Bay window
Title:  Bay window
Description:  This eastbound coal train has a bay window caboose trailing 225 cars. Probably cant see much of a two mile train from there. Yeah, and watch out for the buried cable!!
Photo Date:  9/14/1986  Upload Date: 12/13/2014 4:31:18 AM
Location:  Petersburg, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  186   Comments: 0
NW caboose
Title:  NW caboose
Description:  This NW car was actially on the NW, on the rear of the Hopewell Turn. Check out the partial Illinois Terminal car ahead. Looking back now, wish I'd shot that too.
Photo Date:  9/14/1986  Upload Date: 12/12/2014 2:52:20 AM
Location:  Petersburg, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  367   Comments: 0
Family Lines
Title:  Family Lines
Description:  This Family Lines car was trailing a southbound. Finally a home road car!!
Photo Date:  9/14/1986  Upload Date: 12/12/2014 3:05:41 AM
Location:  Collier Yard, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  160   Comments: 0
Yellow caboose
Title:  Yellow caboose
Description:  One of LIRRs distinctive yellow cabooses is in the middle of RF 62 as it approaches Riverhead.
Photo Date:  10/21/1986  Upload Date: 12/17/2014 1:54:18 AM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  183   Comments: 0
International service
Title:  International service
Description:  A CN international service(stenciled under the cupola) car brings up the rear of train 562 as it picks up a brakeman after leaving Palmer yard.
Photo Date:  11/18/1986  Upload Date: 12/27/2014 3:17:55 AM
Location:  Palmer, MA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  288   Comments: 0
Home road car
Title:  Home road car
Description:  CN cabooses were common on CV trains-all in the family-but some trains ran with CV cars, such as this 444 rolling toward Palmer
Photo Date:  11/18/1986  Upload Date: 12/27/2014 3:22:01 AM
Location:  Three Rivers, MA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
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Views:  156   Comments: 0
Wide vision
Title:  Wide vision
Description:  This wide vision caboose was on a southbound local at Haverstraw. Looks like an ex Reading car.
Photo Date:  1/27/1987  Upload Date: 12/31/2014 2:24:34 AM
Location:  Haverstraw, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Action
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Views:  178   Comments: 0
Out house on a raft
Title:  Out house on a raft
Description:  Long Island had some small cabooses, in addition to a number of bay window cars. This one is trailing RF 63 at Ronkonkoma. The cylindrical forms are for the still building station platforms at the new Ronkonkoma station, which will open in a little under a year.
Photo Date:  2/5/1987  Upload Date: 4/16/2015 2:41:45 AM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Action
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Views:  80   Comments: 0
Bay window car
Title:  Bay window car
Description:  Long Island had some cabooses that were almost transfer hacks without a platform. Along with those, it had some of these bay window cars, such as this one at Manorville on RF 63
Photo Date:  2/5/1987  Upload Date: 12/31/2014 2:27:33 AM
Location:  Manorville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  85   Comments: 0
Good view
Title:  Good view
Description:  The rear end crew of RF 65 has a good view of the scenery as the train passes through Eastport.
Photo Date:  2/10/1987  Upload Date: 4/16/2015 2:47:09 AM
Location:  Eastport, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Action
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Views:  108   Comments: 0
Push em back
Title:  Push em back
Description:  A Conrail work train pushes east on track 2 near Garwoods, with this ancient caboose taking up the rear.
Photo Date:  2/25/1987  Upload Date: 4/18/2015 2:29:44 AM
Location:  Garwoods, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Action
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Views:  79   Comments: 1
Concrete cabooses
Title:  Concrete cabooses
Description:  This pair of cabooses was at an aggregate company in Jersey. I'm not sure of the heritage on these cars. If anyone has info, please comment.
Photo Date:  3/4/1987  Upload Date: 4/21/2015 3:34:58 AM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  223   Comments: 1
Old relic
Title:  Old relic
Description:  This ex PRR N5C was at Passaic Jct, looking forlorn. I never saw it in service; I wonder whatever became of it.
Photo Date:  3/4/1987  Upload Date: 4/16/2015 2:52:09 AM
Location:  Passaic Junction, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  342   Comments: 0
CV van
Title:  CV van
Description:  This CV van was at Palmer in the yard, awaiting a trip to St Albans.
Photo Date:  3/23/1987  Upload Date: 4/21/2015 3:31:25 AM
Location:  Palmer, MA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  312   Comments: 0
Ex Conrail car
Title:  Ex Conrail car
Description:  P&W caboose 2117, formerly a CR N7A class car, takes up the rear of NR 2 at Plainfield.
Photo Date:  3/23/1987  Upload Date: 4/19/2015 4:24:56 AM
Location:  Plainfield, CT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  138   Comments: 0
Double your fun
Title:  Double your fun
Description:  RF 63 has a pair of bay window cabooses, giving the brakeman lining the switch at far left a choice of accommodations. No parlor cars for the crew, though!!
Photo Date:  4/20/1987  Upload Date: 4/23/2015 1:24:44 AM
Location:  Yaphank, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  LI 224(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  265   Comments: 1

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