Hi. Thank you for posting the video. Enjoyed seeing the inside of the caboose. I would like to share a couple of thoughts/comments on the video. It is likely that this caboose never had bunks installed. Where the display shelf is located would have been a couch. These cabooses were not intended to have crews sleep in them. The crews would stay in a bunkhouse at the end of their run (in this case Dauphin). The apparatus displayed by the guide to deliver messages to the train were called hoops. Hoops were used to deliver ":train orders" to passing trains. The train order was created and dictated by the train dispatcher. The station agent or operator at the station (in this case Gladstone) would copy the order dictated by the dispatcher and use the hoop to deliver the order to both the engine crew and crew on the caboose (using two different hoops). While the train orders could contain many different types of instructions, in Gladstone, most of the time it was instructing the train crew to meet an opposing train at a specific station further down the line. It is true that in much earlier times, communication to the agent/operator by the dispatcher (and other stations on the line) was by telegraph. However, when this caboose was in service, this communication was by an internal phone system. In addition, when this caboose was in service, CN did use radios. There would have been a radio of some sort in the caboose. In addition, there was a fixed base station radio located in the station at Gladstone for the agent/operator. Again thanks for the video.
I thought train cabooses would be a little bit more cosy than that, I thought it would have a bunk for sleeping when the engineer was off duty after shift changes, while another engineer would drive the train. In long-haul overseas flights, airline pilots have a private bunk on the plane, where they can take a nap when their shift is done, while the other pilot takes over.
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Hi. Thank you for posting the video. Enjoyed seeing the inside of the caboose. I would like to share a couple of thoughts/comments on the video.
It is likely that this caboose never had bunks installed. Where the display shelf is located would have been a couch. These cabooses were not intended to have crews sleep in them. The crews would stay in a bunkhouse at the end of their run (in this case Dauphin).
The apparatus displayed by the guide to deliver messages to the train were called hoops. Hoops were used to deliver ":train orders" to passing trains. The train order was created and dictated by the train dispatcher. The station agent or operator at the station (in this case Gladstone) would copy the order dictated by the dispatcher and use the hoop to deliver the order to both the engine crew and crew on the caboose (using two different hoops). While the train orders could contain many different types of instructions, in Gladstone, most of the time it was instructing the train crew to meet an opposing train at a specific station further down the line.
It is true that in much earlier times, communication to the agent/operator by the dispatcher (and other stations on the line) was by telegraph. However, when this caboose was in service, this communication was by an internal phone system. In addition, when this caboose was in service, CN did use radios. There would have been a radio of some sort in the caboose. In addition, there was a fixed base station radio located in the station at Gladstone for the agent/operator.
Again thanks for the video.
Thanks for sharing that! The caboose isn't native to Gladstone...not sure where it came from, it was before my time...
I thought train cabooses would be a little bit more cosy than that, I thought it would have a bunk for sleeping when the engineer was off duty after shift changes, while another engineer would drive the train.
In long-haul overseas flights, airline pilots have a private bunk on the plane, where they can take a nap when their shift is done, while the other pilot takes over.
The bunk spaces in this car were converted to display areas for the Museum...
Surely this guy narrating wasn’t a conductor. That’s obvious.
Obviously not. These cars have been retired from service for quite some time. It is a volunteer from the museum explaining what is in the car...
"A Look Inside a Caboose" Next time have someone else read your proposed video title before you post.
Really need to be that ignorant? Who shit in your cornflakes?