Having people at both ends of the train also made fast work of switching. In densely populated parts of the country, cabooses were tool cars, lookout posts, and offices. They were all that and ...

Littlefork resident gears up to restore an 1880s caboose Erik Thompson knows retrieving a more than 10-ton abandoned railroad caboose from the woods is no easy task. The train fanatic extracted in ...

Although they aren’t used anymore, no rail car field guide would be complete without the caboose pulling up the rear. These cute little cars gave the crew a place to cook, eat, sleep ...

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Don't: Its selection of model trains will dazzle railroad fans of ... die-cast airplanes. Red Caboose is the exclusive maker of HO & N Scale New York City subway cars.

The city of Xenia bought the Chessie caboose, of the Baltimore and Ohio rail line, earlier this month from the society for a dollar. “Railroads play a significant role in the history of Xenia ...