The Caboose Page
The K - Line Scale Chessie Caboose smokes, has lighted interior, and a brakeman in cupola. Note wealth of detail
The Kenncott Copper Caboose, from K - Line Collector's Club ...
Northeastern Cabooses: Part 1
P &S #168. The Pittsburg & Shawmut was one of the few railroads that bought the AC&F caboose in quantity, and it remained that railroad's standard caboose for over forty years.
Build an Ann Arbor caboose! - by yours truly!
The following step-by-step directions are intended to serve as a narrative and visual guide for creating a distinctive N scale caboose. Any road name could be substituted, or any products can be used.
Caboose Kibitzer Cover Photographs
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CK V46-N1
"Super Chief"
Ken Patterson ...
Caboose - Found at the end of a freight train and primarily utilized as a crew's quarters, a caboose is sometimes called a bobber, crummy, or way car.
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Caboose
A car, usually placed at the end of a freight train, in which the conductor has an office and living quarters.
Caboose
Special cars used by members of the train crew, usually attached to the rear of freight trains; provided shelter, storage, and office quarters.
Caboose
The car that carries the crew of a freight train. ItÂ's almost always at the rear of the train. Slang terms for the caboose include buggy, bouncer, bobber, cabin, cage, crummy, hack, palace, and way car.
Cabooses of the Norfolk and Western by Robert Bowers and James Brewer: Norfolk and Western Historical Society, Inc.
Coal and the Norfolk and Western Railway: Norfolk and Western Historical Society, Inc.
Caboose-Way Car
A caboose with a section for tools and equipment for track work, or a caboose with a section for hauling freight.
Call Board ...
Cabooses (or guard's vans or brakevans) which attach to the rear of freight trains to order to watch the train and assist in shoving moves.
Maintenance of way (MOW) cars, for the maintenance of track and equipment ...
Caboose Hop
An early term for a train composed of only engine and caboose.
Caboose Valve ...
CAGE"Caboose
CALLER"One whose duty is to summon train or engine crews or announce trains
CALLIOPE"Steam locomotive ...
Installing a Caboose Industries Ground Throw
As Jack mentioned in his 'Electric Control of Turnouts', "Many model railroaders do not use electric controlled turnouts anymore, as they prefer the hands on approach.
A Cupola style Caboose. Note the Angel Seat above.
An Automatic Equipment Identification (AEI) Tag attached to a freight car
A string of TTX Autorack cars in service ...
Hack - A caboose.
Halt - Stopping place, without normal station facilities, for local train services.
Hardshell - A scenery base made by dipping paper towels in plaster and laying them over a light support structure.
Hack (slang, US): A caboose, since it carried the crew around like a taxicab.
Hammerhead style (slang, US): The practice of running a Diesel locomotive with its long hood forward.
Seat in cupola of a caboose.
Angle Bar
One of the two bars used to couple two rails together to form continuous track.
SBU Sense and Brake Unit (see also Caboose) Scab Non union member doing work usually contracted by railroads for railway union labor contracts.
Caboose Valve A rotary valve type of device providing means for making a controlled rate of brake pipe reduction for making a service or emergency application from the caboose.
Caboose End of train non revenue car Caboose Valve A rotary valve type of device providing means for making a controlled rate of brake pipe reduction for making a service or emergency application from the caboose.
See also Signalling Pages Caboose US term for brake van Calling-on Signal Used to indicate to a driver that he may proceed at caution speed because he is entering a section occupied by another vehicle or train.
Cabooses (guards vans) have been replaced on most railways in the USA and Canada with an electronic monitoring and control system. On the rear of each train is a small box which may have flashing light or only a reflector.
Some passenger cars and cabooses come with lighted interiors and/or marker lights. Some are equipped with constant voltage circuits. Others are battery powered, giving constant lighting intensity until the batteries die.
Several holiday tips are outlined, including how to attach little wreaths (that you can buy from your local craft store) to the front of your engines or the backs of your cabooses.
Micro-Trains Battle of Midway Commemorative Locomotive and Caboose
America's Honor Collection N Scale Box Cars from DeLuxe Innovations
Micro-Trains Military Trains and Sets ...
EOT device: An end-of-train device (sometimes called a FRED, or flashing rear-end device) that has replaced cabooses. Along with a flashing light, many EOTs can transmit information on brake-line pressure and speed to the locomotive.
Normalizing a switch after a train has left a siding has become a troublesome and time consuming matter after the caboose (and thus the rear brakeman) disappeared from the trains. One often used and obvoius remedy is to install spring switches.
Any system to provide for automated identification of cars in a train. The commonly used system consists of a set of 13 reflective "modules" on each side of a car, caboose, locomotive, container, or trailer, which identifies the owner, ...
Passenger cars and cabooses are also fairly common, with occasional freight and maintenance-of-way cars offered. The main appeal of these models is that well-made ones will be exact models of particular prototypes with a high level of detail.
If you have enjoyed a fair number of railroad history picture books, you know that a caboose with side doors for mail and express often carried a few passengers. Mixed trains run when the railroad has no "varnish" cars at all! ...
Brake van
An enclosed vehicle at the end of goods trains, in which the guard rides. Thus sometimes called a guard van. Analogous to the North American caboose.
 See also: Track, Train, Engine, Locomotive, Car
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