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Re: 4535 - MOT Set at ToysRUs.com
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 17 Sep 2002 05:28:36 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Stefan Garcia writes:
> > How typical is this? The freight trains that leave the industrial siding
> > that I work near always (that I've noticed) have a caboose on the end.
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> Consider yourself VERY lucky then. Outside of rail museums, I've never seen
> an operational caboose on the end of a train. They've been replaced by
> EoTDs or FREDS.
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> -Stefan-
Based on my experience I would say that there are quite a few cabooses still
in use, but mainly on the local jobs. Those jobs that have to make long
shove moves into industries or between them sometimes have cabooses for use,
not so much as an office, but as a shoving platform. It's a safe place for
the conductor or switchman to ride without hanging onto the side of a car
for miles on end. Of course there are also purpose built shoving platforms,
but since the railroads had the cabooses around anyway, why not use them for
something?
In the greater Cleveland, Ohio area there were at least 3 local jobs that
used cabooses on a daily basis, and this was just on the Norfolk
Southern/Conrail.
Jeff Christner
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| (...) Consider yourself VERY lucky then. Outside of rail museums, I've never seen an operational caboose on the end of a train. They've been replaced by EoTDs or FREDS. -Stefan- (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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