Four Awesome Ways Cabooses Are Used Today
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- The caboose could once be seen at the end of every freight train in North America. Being replaced by the End Of Train Device (EOT/FRED), the caboose faded from the scene... or did it?
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Cabeese?
Cabeese?
cabeese?
@@TheSalemRailfan Cabeese?
cabeese?
Cabeese, definitely cabeese. Ask a goose.
One more use for a caboose is as used on the freight line that runs north out of Holland, Michigan through Grand Haven, Muskegon, and Fremont. There's a bridge over the Grand River in Grand Haven. During boating season, this swing bridge is left open to maritime traffic. The engine crew operates the bridge to close it for rail traffic. After the train crosses the bridge, the conductor, who rides in the caboose at the end of the train, opens the bridge for maritime traffic.
The museum for which I volunteered operated trains to restaurants north of the museum. One season, we had one engine available for the run, with no runaround track available. As conductor, I observed the 11 mile shove move (in 25 degree weather) from the rear platform of a caboose. The maximum authorized speed was restricted speed (no faster than 20 mph). The engine was an EMD DS-1 which had no speedometer or ditch lights. When it pulled the train north, it was not permitted to exceed 20 mph through road crossings.
Short but oh-so-sweet Harrison! And you'd better believe every freight train on my layout's got a caboose on the back end. I mean, how do you know the train's over with no caboose?
Say, who was providing that very stentorian narration at the beginning of the video? He sounded a bit familiar...
Central Vermont cabooses being (in a way) preserved is nice to see, as NECR kept one, and PNLX also owning one.
Great video from Peterboro NY.
Depending on the definition of caboose, they are still common but now they are much larger, have V16 engines and are helping to push the train.
Very true
CN uses a pretty beat-up caboose as a switching platform for the Pointe-Saint-Charles switcher in Montreal.
The engine on the first train in Vermont is ffrom the Huron & Eastern, based in Bad Axe, Michigan. The H & E is a Genesee and Wyoming railroad.
Cool video
Thank you for this video. I have an Illinois Central extended porch caboose on my family Farm. I am a Catholic priest, and I use my caboose as my home on the farm, my couple of days off each week. I am on the hunt for another caboose or more to use as guestrooms for my retreat center on the farm.
Yes, it is a very cool 😎 and informative video 😊.
Nicely done. I know BNSF using a caboose (shoving platform) on the Japanese Gluch haul to Boeing as a safety measure and of course the I have seen the Navy Nuclear trains have them for security
Great video I have been to Strasburg Pa and I think that is a great place
The NH Northcoast Railroad has a caboose, occassionly used as a shoving platform. It also has been used to take local officials and shippers on a tour of the line, usually during the foliage season. Has also made an appearence at the Union NH depot open house.
There's the Milford-Bennington in Milford NH using a bay window to shove to the pit and on the tail back to Milford. Conway Scenic in N Conway NH has a bunch for summer homes for the crews
Multiple 🫎 moose gathering around multiple caboose, meese near cabeese.😁🚂😁🚂😁🚂
I assuming with the Evention of the RCL, the Engineer could stand on Caboose porch and control the engine on lines where there are few no run arounds.
There's a cool 1926 C&O caboose in Ashland, VA. It's part of the Ashland Museum. (My son loves it.)
Surf Wisely.
I like to see the caboose at the end of long freight trains. You see them nowadays just at the state borders for long hauls. Other places they use a caboose once in a blue moon not too often. The deliveries they make are local runs. That's probably why you rarely see a caboose. It disappoints me blah.
A new Caboose in 1989 was $80,000, and a TOT/FRED was $2,500(As I've been told and some documentation has indicated). So every railroad with half a brain did what any 2 year old with a since to make money would do and ditched the caboose. 35 years later the last main line cabooses are reserved for special loads and routes where the conductor needs to be the eyes of the engineer. all other operating cabooses are for scenic railroads that offer the caboose rider experience.
My Dad and I saw an armored caboose on the end of a train carrying spent nuclear fuel from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. I believe it's used to carry U.S. Marines assigned to protect the cargo; spent nuclear fuel can be a potential target for terrorists.
I have a video of that train on my channel.
Conway scenic rr in nh still uses theirs on work trains
I know that Rock Island Rail Uses cabooses in revenue service even if there is a runaround.
That RR is a class act, one that I definitely need to shoot in my lifetime
@@NorthCountryTrains I am planning to go down there when I have some time off from my trade school. My goal is to take photos and take copious amounts of 8mm film with a Cannon AE-1 (1979-1982) and a Sony camcorder from the mid-90s. My uncle has an early 80s Chevrolet Impala station wagon that has been in the family since new (the company my grandfather worked for bought it to transport molds and my grandfather bought it almost a year after being the one who drove it). Effectively I want the photos and footage to look like it was taken slightly after bankruptcy with the Chevrolet Impala in the background.
For now, I would just take my Canon AE-1 and the Sony Camcorder and hope the best.