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Title: |
Ya gotta love the irony |
Description: |
This Seaboard System caboose was trailing a westbound empty train at Scottsville VA, passing a port-a-potty when I caught it. SBD?? Any way you shake it. |
Photo Date: |
5/14/1988 Upload Date: 7/12/2015 3:26:49 AM |
Location: |
Scottsville, VA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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RollingStock,Action |
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87 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
BAR car |
Description: |
No, not the kind you remember from the Long Island or Metro North. This one is much more spartan, though you might want a snort after spending some time in it. |
Photo Date: |
5/28/1988 Upload Date: 7/12/2015 3:13:40 AM |
Location: |
Squa Pan, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard |
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776 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
CP van |
Description: |
This CP van was on hand at the yard. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/6/2015 3:27:13 AM |
Location: |
Brownville Junction, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard |
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CP 8797(RS18) |
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505 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Lease car?? |
Description: |
This caboose with JEMX reporting marks was at the CP yard. Dont know whose car it is. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/6/2015 3:28:26 AM |
Location: |
Brownville Junction, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard |
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106 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
MEC buggy |
Description: |
MEC caboose sits at Northern Maine Jct on Memorial Day weekend 1988 |
Photo Date: |
5/30/1988 Upload Date: 12/7/2012 1:48:14 AM |
Location: |
Northern Maine Jct, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard |
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ST 12(GP7) |
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498 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Short one for the local |
Description: |
One of LIRRs short wheelbase cars is working on RF 7 today, seen at Fremont. They often wound up in the middle of the train. Hope the crew remembered to switch it out before dropping the cars for Conrail. |
Photo Date: |
6/16/1988 Upload Date: 7/27/2015 4:54:47 AM |
Location: |
Fresh Pond Junction, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Yard,Action |
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175 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Old warrior |
Description: |
There were two cabooses in the Ithaca yard this day. This one appears to be possibly an actual LV car, though not much of that road's rolling stock survived long on Conrail. |
Photo Date: |
7/5/1988 Upload Date: 8/25/2015 3:21:55 AM |
Location: |
Ithaca, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard |
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286 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Bay window car |
Description: |
This N 7 bay window car was at the Ithaca yard. |
Photo Date: |
7/5/1988 Upload Date: 8/25/2015 3:25:23 AM |
Location: |
Ithaca, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard |
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138 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Out to pasture |
Description: |
A line of D&H cabooses was pushed off onto a siding at Oneonta. There are some classics here. |
Photo Date: |
12/4/1988 Upload Date: 9/27/2015 3:50:40 AM |
Location: |
Oneonta, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard |
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455 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Work train west |
Description: |
This car will be around the Tier for several weeks, although the power will change on this tie train. It is westbound at McMaster St in Owego. |
Photo Date: |
3/14/1989 Upload Date: 9/28/2015 4:14:36 AM |
Location: |
Owego, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,RollingStock,Action |
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168 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Work train east |
Description: |
This ex Reading N4A car was on the Tier for several weeks, working on a tie train. The work trains tended to get cabooses since they had a lot of backing moves. |
Photo Date: |
3/21/1989 Upload Date: 9/28/2015 4:12:42 AM |
Location: |
Johnson City, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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119 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
CV van in service |
Description: |
Cabooses were mostly a memory by 1989, but this one was still working, seen on a northbound CV train at Colchester. |
Photo Date: |
6/16/1989 Upload Date: 10/27/2015 2:21:49 AM |
Location: |
Colchester, VT |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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233 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Rolling away |
Description: |
RF 60 pulls away from the camera, having just knocked down the signal as it approaches Jay tower to get through the Jamaica complex. At left in the Richmond Hill yard, is a train led by FA 616. |
Photo Date: |
9/10/1989 Upload Date: 11/27/2015 4:13:20 AM |
Location: |
Richmond Hill, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Signal,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 616(Power Car) |
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440 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Didnt get to the party |
Description: |
The day of this photo, LIRR was running a trip called the Kabin Kar Trek, which had 8 cabooses and two coaches, allowing riders to ride the cabooses for segments of the trip. Looks like C 53 had to work that day. We see it bringing up the rear of RF 60. |
Photo Date: |
9/10/1989 Upload Date: 11/27/2015 4:19:37 AM |
Location: |
Richmond Hill, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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153 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Left Behind |
Description: |
Its not uncommon for a merged road to combine its equipment, spreading it across the new system, and Guilford did this with all manner of power and rolling stock. But when they cut the D&H loose, they left some of it behind-though not the U23Bs-such as this Portland Terminal caboose in Oneonta. |
Photo Date: |
11/4/1989 Upload Date: 12/14/2015 3:07:08 AM |
Location: |
Oneonta, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
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96 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
CR van on MIL 101 |
Description: |
A former NYC van brings up the rear of a MIL 101 passing through the recently installed detector at Tioga Center. |
Photo Date: |
1/6/1990 Upload Date: 12/19/2015 4:41:56 AM |
Location: |
Tioga Center, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,RollingStock,Action |
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100 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
B&P car |
Description: |
This ex B&O caboose was at the Buffalo & Pittsburgh yard, looking untouched from its previous ownership. |
Photo Date: |
3/24/1990 Upload Date: 12/28/2015 3:34:14 AM |
Location: |
Salamanca, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard |
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105 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Trailing the tanks |
Description: |
The MIL special trains always had a caboose. These were for military escorts and CR police, who also followed the trains on the highway. We see 21286, which seemed to draw this duty on a regular basis, rolling east along US 11. |
Photo Date: |
4/11/1990 Upload Date: 1/2/2016 4:50:53 AM |
Location: |
Kirkwood, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
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181 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Rolling toward the hill |
Description: |
The caboose on the rear of the MIL train rolls east at SR cabin, whose westbound home signal is seen to the left of the caboose, as the train makes its run for Starrucca and Gulf Summit. |
Photo Date: |
4/11/1990 Upload Date: 1/2/2016 4:55:17 AM |
Location: |
Oakland, PA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,RollingStock,Signal,Action |
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131 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Van west |
Description: |
A familiar sight, CR N21 21286, rolls west on OIBU, making it look like a real freight train one day in a row. Cabooses were a novelty by this time, and it was always a surprise to see one on anything other than a local or special train. Note the ex NYSW RS 1 on the adjacent Tioga Central at right. |
Photo Date: |
4/27/1990 Upload Date: 1/10/2016 2:39:20 AM |
Location: |
Owego, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Signal,Action |
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99 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Open range |
Description: |
My friend Jerry shot this southbound near his home on the Santa Fe El Paso Sub. A typical red ATSF caboose brings up the rear as the train rolls down the rangeland. Date is a guess. |
Photo Date: |
8/14/1990 Upload Date: 11/17/2016 2:56:56 AM |
Location: |
Belen, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,RollingStock,Action |
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75 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Ex EL car |
Description: |
An ex Erie Lackawanna caboose brings up the rear of this tie train at Bevier St |
Photo Date: |
12/14/1991 Upload Date: 2/17/2015 3:37:29 AM |
Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Yard,Action |
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201 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
NW caboose |
Description: |
This NW caboose trailed a NS work train on the former Nickel Plate |
Photo Date: |
7/18/1992 Upload Date: 1/15/2012 11:09:19 PM |
Location: |
Brocton, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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162 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
No missing this car |
Description: |
A bright orange D&H caboose trails ML 1 as it takes 15 cars of LP gas to the Tioga Central in Owego. |
Photo Date: |
7/21/1992 Upload Date: 2/13/2015 3:47:53 AM |
Location: |
Campville, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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167 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Local car |
Description: |
Conrail based a local at Silver Springs, mainly to service the huge Morton Salt plant there. They used this caboose to facilitate back up moves. |
Photo Date: |
6/20/1993 Upload Date: 1/25/2015 3:55:30 AM |
Location: |
Silver Springs, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
CR 7531(GP10) |
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280 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
BN local |
Description: |
A BN waycar brings up the rear of a local returning to Cicero at the Berwyn station |
Photo Date: |
1/6/1996 Upload Date: 5/16/2014 1:54:29 AM |
Location: |
Berwyn, IL |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Winter,Station,Action |
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146 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Frisco van in Denver |
Description: |
There were some industrial tracks in the area east of Denver out towards Commerce City that were used for storage. Some interesting equipment turned up there, among other things some LIRR P 72 coaches. There were also some cabooses, such as this ex Frisco car, numbered in the BN system. |
Photo Date: |
4/15/1997 Upload Date: 4/15/2014 11:44:20 PM |
Location: |
Denver, CO |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
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163 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Ohio Central caboose |
Description: |
While waiting out a Sunday in Youngstown, I had some time to look around, and came across these items at the Ohio Central yard. The red caboose had no number. The OHCR car looks like it's ex P&LE |
Photo Date: |
8/13/2000 Upload Date: 1/23/2014 2:04:50 AM |
Location: |
Youngstown, OH |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard |
Locomotives: |
OHCR 7591(GP10) |
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420 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Bright |
Description: |
The Genesee & Wyoming group had taken over the Allegany RR, moving some of their equipment to PA, as one would expect. This caboose must have been recently painted, as the orange was bright!! It is in the company of a spreader at Warren PA. The line is former PRR, running from a connection with the Buffalo Line at Emporium PA to Erie. |
Photo Date: |
11/9/2003 Upload Date: 6/16/2016 3:22:15 AM |
Location: |
Warren, PA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
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272 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Working rail |
Description: |
Literally. The van today is on the rear of a rail train at the south end of Bevier St |
Photo Date: |
11/14/2005 Upload Date: 9/1/2017 5:13:45 AM |
Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Yard,Action |
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100 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
And a van yet |
Description: |
D 22 passes under a classic D&H signal at CPF 587 in Afton with a caboose taking up the rear as God intended. |
Photo Date: |
12/7/2005 Upload Date: 6/23/2012 2:50:56 AM |
Location: |
Afton, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
CP 7305(GP38-2) |
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538 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Great view from up there |
Description: |
Dont know if anyone is riding in the van, but if they are, their view is pretty good. My view is a little crooked, as this was a grab shot. I had gotten the head end of local D 22 here, and was not expecting it to have a caboose. This van was working locals and mostly work trains in the Binghamton area that fall. |
Photo Date: |
12/7/2005 Upload Date: 9/1/2017 5:12:55 AM |
Location: |
Harpursville, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,RollingStock,Action |
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115 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Q car |
Description: |
Q in this case standing for the Chicago Burlington & Quincy. This relic was in the yard at Thayer Mo, on the ex Frisco. Who would have figured, almost 40 years after the Q disappeared into BN, and went deeper into oblivion after BNSF. |
Photo Date: |
2/18/2007 Upload Date: 1/28/2017 4:42:42 AM |
Location: |
Thayer, MO |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
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137 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Relic of a bygone era |
Description: |
Another caboose that was in Thayer was this Frisco car, which appears to be sitting on panel track. I dont recall the specifics at this point, so perhaps a trip there is in order. |
Photo Date: |
2/18/2007 Upload Date: 1/28/2017 4:54:26 AM |
Location: |
Thayer, MO |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
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187 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Rock caboose-sorta |
Description: |
This little gem was alongside US 81 near Beatrice Neb. It's actually ATSF 999426 painted as a Rock car-see the comment below. |
Photo Date: |
9/25/2011 Upload Date: 1/20/2012 2:04:16 AM |
Location: |
Beatrice, NE |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
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276 Comments: 3 |
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Title: |
Heritage car |
Description: |
This GM&O caboose is at the station in Corinth Miss, where the current occupants are KCS on the former GM&O, and NS on the former Southern Memphis District. Theres a station/museum there, too, and its a pretty good place to watch trains. |
Photo Date: |
4/7/2013 Upload Date: 8/3/2019 5:08:31 AM |
Location: |
Corinth, MS |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
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113 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
One of two |
Description: |
Two roads crossed here at Brinkley. One, whose caboose is displayed on the station grounds, was the Cotton Belt, and SP subsidiary. Interestingly, this car is on the Rock Island right of way, the other participant at this point. Cotton Belt had rights on the Rock from Memhis to this point, where it gained its own line to reach Pine Bluff and Texas. The Rock continued west to Little Rock and eventually Amarillo and Tucumcari. A Rock car here would be a nice nod to the heritage. |
Photo Date: |
4/7/2013 Upload Date: 8/3/2019 5:25:47 AM |
Location: |
Brinkley, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
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115 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Looking from the west |
Description: |
The view of the SP car looking from the west end of it, along the Rock right of way. |
Photo Date: |
4/7/2013 Upload Date: 8/3/2019 5:30:55 AM |
Location: |
Brinkley, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
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84 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
UP car on the Rock |
Description: |
For some reason, a number of town on the ex Rock Island Choctaw Route got cabooses to display, though they seem to be non Rock Island cars for the most part. This UP car is at Hazen, which also has an intact station. |
Photo Date: |
4/7/2013 Upload Date: 8/3/2019 5:33:41 AM |
Location: |
Hazen, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
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82 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Local car |
Description: |
This transfer caboose is used by the Pryor based local on the ex MKT. It is currently referred to as a "shoving platform," since it isnt used as a caboose in the traditional sense any more. Mostly it works in the Mid America Industrial Park here. |
Photo Date: |
5/11/2013 Upload Date: 8/3/2019 5:12:33 AM |
Location: |
Pryor, OK |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
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156 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Santa Fe car |
Description: |
This ex Santa Fe car was on display at Williams Arizona. |
Photo Date: |
4/4/2015 Upload Date: 9/23/2015 4:48:46 AM |
Location: |
Williams, AZ |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
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158 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Shop queen |
Description: |
This WATCO caboose has likely run its last miles long ago. It now sits at the entrance to the WATCO car shop at Coffeyville. Looks good for a display piece. |
Photo Date: |
6/14/2015 Upload Date: 10/25/2015 3:05:00 AM |
Location: |
Coffeyville, KS |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
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102 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
DL van |
Description: |
This Delaware Lackawanna van is sitting in the Steamtown yard at Scranton. DL provides the freight service between here and Stroudsburg over the old DLW, with an all Alco roster. |
Photo Date: |
8/20/2015 Upload Date: 9/28/2015 2:53:17 AM |
Location: |
Scranton, PA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard |
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117 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Museum piece |
Description: |
This Burlington caboose sits outside the former passenger station here, now part of the town museum. |
Photo Date: |
10/18/2016 Upload Date: 10/27/2016 4:37:03 AM |
Location: |
Beatrice, NE |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
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141 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Chamber of Commerce |
Description: |
Many towns along rail lines made an effort to get cabooses as the railroads shed them in the early and mid 80s. In many cases, the rail lines donated them, getting a tax write off. Quite a few of them became local information centers, or just ornaments near an old station or station site. Some, like this one at Acworth, GA, got painted in a show of civic pride. It looks like this one was a Santa Fe car in its working life. |
Photo Date: |
4/20/2017 Upload Date: 5/1/2017 4:21:39 AM |
Location: |
Acworth, GA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
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52 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Downtown display |
Description: |
This Frisco caboose is adjacent to the former passenger station at Bentonville, whose track was taken up years ago. Its almost like they left it when the left town. It looks good here, as does the station, which is now privately owned. |
Photo Date: |
1/19/2018 Upload Date: 2/5/2018 4:23:42 AM |
Location: |
Bentonville, AR |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Station |
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117 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Santa Fe, sorta, maybe |
Description: |
I was on a "geezer" bus tour which stopped for a meal break at this place called Barstow Station. It was NOT the ex ATSF Casa del Desierto, which would have been way too much to ask. This was a glorified gas station on the other side of the yard. It did have something of a rail theme, and the McDonalds there had several box cars that had been trucked in and parked as part of their restaurant. One of the more interesting pieces was this mock Santa Fe caboose. |
Photo Date: |
3/10/2019 Upload Date: 8/3/2019 5:00:01 AM |
Location: |
Barstow, CA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
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40 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Frisco car |
Description: |
The Frisco donated a lot of their cabooses to on line communities, though Im wondering about this one, in a park on the west side of Springfield, as the number doesnt match the Friscos practice of four digit car numbers. Comment if you know... |
Photo Date: |
10/24/2023 Upload Date: 11/2/2023 6:14:08 AM |
Location: |
Springfield, MO |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
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42 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
IC car northbound |
Description: |
An IC caboose trails a northbound train entering Homewood yard |
Photo Date: |
10/9/1982 Upload Date: 4/24/2013 1:12:57 AM |
Location: |
Homewood, IL |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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333 Comments: 2 |
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