CUPOLA"Observation tower on caboose
CUSHIONS"Passenger cars. Cushion rider may be either a passenger or member of passenger-train crew. (See varnished cars) ...
Cupola
A small cabin atop the caboose where the brakeman can scan ahead over the roofs of freight cars in a train.
Cupola of caboose. Trainman occupying it was sometimes known as a librarian.
Lift Transportation
Collect tickets.
Cupola
A small cabin built on the roof of a caboose to afford a means of lookout for the train crews.
Current Of Traffic ...
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 ...
Seat in cupola of a caboose.
Angle Bar
One of the two bars used to couple two rails together to form continuous track.
The small cupola on top of the caboose lets crews look over the top of the train. In the old days, train men could walk along walkways on top of freight cars. They do not do that any more, so some cabooses do not have a cuploa on top.
Remove the cupola by squeezing in slightly from each end toward the middle. Remove the smoke-jack by pulling straight up. I removed the Pepsi logo with an X-acto knife.
Also called a way car, hack or, in the days of living in them, a bean shack Cupola A small cabin on the roof of a caboose to afford a means of lookout for the train crew.
Angel Seat or Angel's Perch: (US) A term often used when referring to the second level seats on a Cupola style caboose.
The boarding party leader walked up to the cupola area, looked up at the two sitting in their chairs and suggested they climb down and present his party with their valuables as a sort of welcome aboard gift.
Many cabooses were built with cupolas or bay windows which allowed crew members to observe conditions at the rear of the train. Automated end-of-train devices rendered the caboose obsolete in mainline train operations.
Cupola - Small cabin atop the caboose.
Current - Rate of flow of electricity within an electrical circuit.
Curve - Classified as: 1. Simple - one radius throughout.
2. Compound - two or more simpl e curves of similar radius.
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 See also: Caboose, Car, Train, Locomotive, Track
  
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