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Re: what is the use of a caboose?
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:32:26 GMT
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Alexander Johnston wrote:
> I'm curious. Does ANYONE use cabooses anymore? The last time I remember
> seeing a caboose on a train was sometime in the early 90s.
I saw a CSX train near Harper's Ferry, WV with a bay window caboose as
recently as a year and half ago. It might have been a freak occurance
though.
> At the time I lived right next to a series of railroad tracks, one right
> next to the other. Only around 50 or 60 feet of marsh land was between the
> very end of my backyard and the closest track. You would think that living
> so close to a railroad would be really noisey, but it wasn't believe it or
> not. I was very young at the time. I always thought of it as my personnal
> full scale train set. :-) Almost all of the conductors would wave to me as
> they were passing by. The tracks were owned by Berlington Railroad, however
> I would occasionally see Amtrak passenger trains run by the tracks. My
> freinds and I would sometimes throw rocks into the moving box cars that had
> its doors open. There was also this automated light tower on the tracks.
> Whenever, it was on, it would illuminate all of the tracks so conductors can
> see if the tracks in front of them had been tampered with. The lights would
> only come on when trains transporting hazardous material was coming through.
neat story.
-chris
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| (...) I'm curious. Does ANYONE use cabooses anymore? The last time I remember seeing a caboose on a train was sometime in the early 90s. At the time I lived right next to a series of railroad tracks, one right next to the other. Only around 50 or 60 (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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