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By:Tom Beckett
Dates:1/1/1977 - 5/19/2011
Album Info:Buggies, hacks, crummies, cabins, vans, whatever you want to call them. Some in service, some stuffed and mounted.
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Ya gotta love the irony
Title:  Ya gotta love the irony
Description:  This Seaboard System caboose was trailing a westbound empty train at Scottsville VA, passing a port-a-potty when I caught it. SBD?? Any way you shake it.
Photo Date:  5/14/1988  Upload Date: 7/12/2015 3:26:49 AM
Location:  Scottsville, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  88   Comments: 0
BAR car
Title:  BAR car
Description:  No, not the kind you remember from the Long Island or Metro North. This one is much more spartan, though you might want a snort after spending some time in it.
Photo Date:  5/28/1988  Upload Date: 7/12/2015 3:13:40 AM
Location:  Squa Pan, ME
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  780   Comments: 0
CP van
Title:  CP van
Description:  This CP van was on hand at the yard.
Photo Date:  5/29/1988  Upload Date: 3/6/2015 3:27:13 AM
Location:  Brownville Junction, ME
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  CP 8797(RS18)
Views:  509   Comments: 1
Lease car??
Title:  Lease car??
Description:  This caboose with JEMX reporting marks was at the CP yard. Dont know whose car it is.
Photo Date:  5/29/1988  Upload Date: 3/6/2015 3:28:26 AM
Location:  Brownville Junction, ME
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  109   Comments: 1
MEC buggy
Title:  MEC buggy
Description:  MEC caboose sits at Northern Maine Jct on Memorial Day weekend 1988
Photo Date:  5/30/1988  Upload Date: 12/7/2012 1:48:14 AM
Location:  Northern Maine Jct, ME
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  ST 12(GP7)
Views:  506   Comments: 0
Short one for the local
Title:  Short one for the local
Description:  One of LIRRs short wheelbase cars is working on RF 7 today, seen at Fremont. They often wound up in the middle of the train. Hope the crew remembered to switch it out before dropping the cars for Conrail.
Photo Date:  6/16/1988  Upload Date: 7/27/2015 4:54:47 AM
Location:  Fresh Pond Junction, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Action
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Views:  179   Comments: 0
Old warrior
Title:  Old warrior
Description:  There were two cabooses in the Ithaca yard this day. This one appears to be possibly an actual LV car, though not much of that road's rolling stock survived long on Conrail.
Photo Date:  7/5/1988  Upload Date: 8/25/2015 3:21:55 AM
Location:  Ithaca, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  286   Comments: 0
Bay window car
Title:  Bay window car
Description:  This N 7 bay window car was at the Ithaca yard.
Photo Date:  7/5/1988  Upload Date: 8/25/2015 3:25:23 AM
Location:  Ithaca, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  139   Comments: 0
Out to pasture
Title:  Out to pasture
Description:  A line of D&H cabooses was pushed off onto a siding at Oneonta. There are some classics here.
Photo Date:  12/4/1988  Upload Date: 9/27/2015 3:50:40 AM
Location:  Oneonta, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  460   Comments: 0
Work train west
Title:  Work train west
Description:  This car will be around the Tier for several weeks, although the power will change on this tie train. It is westbound at McMaster St in Owego.
Photo Date:  3/14/1989  Upload Date: 9/28/2015 4:14:36 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Action
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Views:  170   Comments: 0
Work train east
Title:  Work train east
Description:  This ex Reading N4A car was on the Tier for several weeks, working on a tie train. The work trains tended to get cabooses since they had a lot of backing moves.
Photo Date:  3/21/1989  Upload Date: 9/28/2015 4:12:42 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  122   Comments: 0
CV van in service
Title:  CV van in service
Description:  Cabooses were mostly a memory by 1989, but this one was still working, seen on a northbound CV train at Colchester.
Photo Date:  6/16/1989  Upload Date: 10/27/2015 2:21:49 AM
Location:  Colchester, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  234   Comments: 0
Rolling away
Title:  Rolling away
Description:  RF 60 pulls away from the camera, having just knocked down the signal as it approaches Jay tower to get through the Jamaica complex. At left in the Richmond Hill yard, is a train led by FA 616.
Photo Date:  9/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/27/2015 4:13:20 AM
Location:  Richmond Hill, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 616(Power Car)
Views:  456   Comments: 0
Didnt get to the party
Title:  Didnt get to the party
Description:  The day of this photo, LIRR was running a trip called the Kabin Kar Trek, which had 8 cabooses and two coaches, allowing riders to ride the cabooses for segments of the trip. Looks like C 53 had to work that day. We see it bringing up the rear of RF 60.
Photo Date:  9/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/27/2015 4:19:37 AM
Location:  Richmond Hill, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  155   Comments: 0
Left Behind
Title:  Left Behind
Description:  Its not uncommon for a merged road to combine its equipment, spreading it across the new system, and Guilford did this with all manner of power and rolling stock. But when they cut the D&H loose, they left some of it behind-though not the U23Bs-such as this Portland Terminal caboose in Oneonta.
Photo Date:  11/4/1989  Upload Date: 12/14/2015 3:07:08 AM
Location:  Oneonta, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
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Views:  97   Comments: 0
CR van on MIL 101
Title:  CR van on MIL 101
Description:  A former NYC van brings up the rear of a MIL 101 passing through the recently installed detector at Tioga Center.
Photo Date:  1/6/1990  Upload Date: 12/19/2015 4:41:56 AM
Location:  Tioga Center, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Action
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Views:  100   Comments: 1
B&P car
Title:  B&P car
Description:  This ex B&O caboose was at the Buffalo & Pittsburgh yard, looking untouched from its previous ownership.
Photo Date:  3/24/1990  Upload Date: 12/28/2015 3:34:14 AM
Location:  Salamanca, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  105   Comments: 0
Trailing the tanks
Title:  Trailing the tanks
Description:  The MIL special trains always had a caboose. These were for military escorts and CR police, who also followed the trains on the highway. We see 21286, which seemed to draw this duty on a regular basis, rolling east along US 11.
Photo Date:  4/11/1990  Upload Date: 1/2/2016 4:50:53 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
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Views:  182   Comments: 0
Rolling toward the hill
Title:  Rolling toward the hill
Description:  The caboose on the rear of the MIL train rolls east at SR cabin, whose westbound home signal is seen to the left of the caboose, as the train makes its run for Starrucca and Gulf Summit.
Photo Date:  4/11/1990  Upload Date: 1/2/2016 4:55:17 AM
Location:  Oakland, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Signal,Action
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Views:  133   Comments: 1
Van west
Title:  Van west
Description:  A familiar sight, CR N21 21286, rolls west on OIBU, making it look like a real freight train one day in a row. Cabooses were a novelty by this time, and it was always a surprise to see one on anything other than a local or special train. Note the ex NYSW RS 1 on the adjacent Tioga Central at right.
Photo Date:  4/27/1990  Upload Date: 1/10/2016 2:39:20 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Signal,Action
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Views:  100   Comments: 0
Open range
Title:  Open range
Description:  My friend Jerry shot this southbound near his home on the Santa Fe El Paso Sub. A typical red ATSF caboose brings up the rear as the train rolls down the rangeland. Date is a guess.
Photo Date:  8/14/1990  Upload Date: 11/17/2016 2:56:56 AM
Location:  Belen, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Action
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Views:  76   Comments: 0
Ex EL car
Title:  Ex EL car
Description:  An ex Erie Lackawanna caboose brings up the rear of this tie train at Bevier St
Photo Date:  12/14/1991  Upload Date: 2/17/2015 3:37:29 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Action
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Views:  206   Comments: 0
NW caboose
Title:  NW caboose
Description:  This NW caboose trailed a NS work train on the former Nickel Plate
Photo Date:  7/18/1992  Upload Date: 1/15/2012 11:09:19 PM
Location:  Brocton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  164   Comments: 0
No missing this car
Title:  No missing this car
Description:  A bright orange D&H caboose trails ML 1 as it takes 15 cars of LP gas to the Tioga Central in Owego.
Photo Date:  7/21/1992  Upload Date: 2/13/2015 3:47:53 AM
Location:  Campville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  171   Comments: 0
Local car
Title:  Local car
Description:  Conrail based a local at Silver Springs, mainly to service the huge Morton Salt plant there. They used this caboose to facilitate back up moves.
Photo Date:  6/20/1993  Upload Date: 1/25/2015 3:55:30 AM
Location:  Silver Springs, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 7531(GP10)
Views:  283   Comments: 1
BN local
Title:  BN local
Description:  A BN waycar brings up the rear of a local returning to Cicero at the Berwyn station
Photo Date:  1/6/1996  Upload Date: 5/16/2014 1:54:29 AM
Location:  Berwyn, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Station,Action
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Views:  151   Comments: 0
Frisco van in Denver
Title:  Frisco van in Denver
Description:  There were some industrial tracks in the area east of Denver out towards Commerce City that were used for storage. Some interesting equipment turned up there, among other things some LIRR P 72 coaches. There were also some cabooses, such as this ex Frisco car, numbered in the BN system.
Photo Date:  4/15/1997  Upload Date: 4/15/2014 11:44:20 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  165   Comments: 0
Ohio Central caboose
Title:  Ohio Central caboose
Description:  While waiting out a Sunday in Youngstown, I had some time to look around, and came across these items at the Ohio Central yard. The red caboose had no number. The OHCR car looks like it's ex P&LE
Photo Date:  8/13/2000  Upload Date: 1/23/2014 2:04:50 AM
Location:  Youngstown, OH
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  OHCR 7591(GP10)
Views:  427   Comments: 0
ansfer hack
Title:  ansfer hack
Description:  The local job at Pryor OK on the ex MKT has for years used an ex MP transfer caboose for back up moves in the adjacent industrial park. When I drove past on US 69 in late 2000, this was thf car they were using. There's a different caboose there now, but still an ex MP car.
Photo Date:  10/17/2000  Upload Date: 1/17/2014 12:53:39 AM
Location:  Pryor, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  143   Comments: 0
Bright
Title:  Bright
Description:  The Genesee & Wyoming group had taken over the Allegany RR, moving some of their equipment to PA, as one would expect. This caboose must have been recently painted, as the orange was bright!! It is in the company of a spreader at Warren PA. The line is former PRR, running from a connection with the Buffalo Line at Emporium PA to Erie.
Photo Date:  11/9/2003  Upload Date: 6/16/2016 3:22:15 AM
Location:  Warren, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  274   Comments: 0
Working rail
Title:  Working rail
Description:  Literally. The van today is on the rear of a rail train at the south end of Bevier St
Photo Date:  11/14/2005  Upload Date: 9/1/2017 5:13:45 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
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Views:  101   Comments: 0
And a van yet
Title:  And a van yet
Description:  D 22 passes under a classic D&H signal at CPF 587 in Afton with a caboose taking up the rear as God intended.
Photo Date:  12/7/2005  Upload Date: 6/23/2012 2:50:56 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 7305(GP38-2)
Views:  549   Comments: 1
Great view from up there
Title:  Great view from up there
Description:  Dont know if anyone is riding in the van, but if they are, their view is pretty good. My view is a little crooked, as this was a grab shot. I had gotten the head end of local D 22 here, and was not expecting it to have a caboose. This van was working locals and mostly work trains in the Binghamton area that fall.
Photo Date:  12/7/2005  Upload Date: 9/1/2017 5:12:55 AM
Location:  Harpursville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Action
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Views:  117   Comments: 1
Q car
Title:  Q car
Description:  Q in this case standing for the Chicago Burlington & Quincy. This relic was in the yard at Thayer Mo, on the ex Frisco. Who would have figured, almost 40 years after the Q disappeared into BN, and went deeper into oblivion after BNSF.
Photo Date:  2/18/2007  Upload Date: 1/28/2017 4:42:42 AM
Location:  Thayer, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
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Views:  138   Comments: 1
Relic of a bygone era
Title:  Relic of a bygone era
Description:  Another caboose that was in Thayer was this Frisco car, which appears to be sitting on panel track. I dont recall the specifics at this point, so perhaps a trip there is in order.
Photo Date:  2/18/2007  Upload Date: 1/28/2017 4:54:26 AM
Location:  Thayer, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
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Views:  189   Comments: 1
Rock caboose-sorta
Title:  Rock caboose-sorta
Description:  This little gem was alongside US 81 near Beatrice Neb. It's actually ATSF 999426 painted as a Rock car-see the comment below.
Photo Date:  9/25/2011  Upload Date: 1/20/2012 2:04:16 AM
Location:  Beatrice, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  277   Comments: 3
Heritage car
Title:  Heritage car
Description:  This GM&O caboose is at the station in Corinth Miss, where the current occupants are KCS on the former GM&O, and NS on the former Southern Memphis District. Theres a station/museum there, too, and its a pretty good place to watch trains.
Photo Date:  4/7/2013  Upload Date: 8/3/2019 5:08:31 AM
Location:  Corinth, MS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  114   Comments: 1
One of two
Title:  One of two
Description:  Two roads crossed here at Brinkley. One, whose caboose is displayed on the station grounds, was the Cotton Belt, and SP subsidiary. Interestingly, this car is on the Rock Island right of way, the other participant at this point. Cotton Belt had rights on the Rock from Memhis to this point, where it gained its own line to reach Pine Bluff and Texas. The Rock continued west to Little Rock and eventually Amarillo and Tucumcari. A Rock car here would be a nice nod to the heritage.
Photo Date:  4/7/2013  Upload Date: 8/3/2019 5:25:47 AM
Location:  Brinkley, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  116   Comments: 1
Looking from the west
Title:  Looking from the west
Description:  The view of the SP car looking from the west end of it, along the Rock right of way.
Photo Date:  4/7/2013  Upload Date: 8/3/2019 5:30:55 AM
Location:  Brinkley, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  86   Comments: 1
UP car on the Rock
Title:  UP car on the Rock
Description:  For some reason, a number of town on the ex Rock Island Choctaw Route got cabooses to display, though they seem to be non Rock Island cars for the most part. This UP car is at Hazen, which also has an intact station.
Photo Date:  4/7/2013  Upload Date: 8/3/2019 5:33:41 AM
Location:  Hazen, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  84   Comments: 1
Local car
Title:  Local car
Description:  This transfer caboose is used by the Pryor based local on the ex MKT. It is currently referred to as a "shoving platform," since it isnt used as a caboose in the traditional sense any more. Mostly it works in the Mid America Industrial Park here.
Photo Date:  5/11/2013  Upload Date: 8/3/2019 5:12:33 AM
Location:  Pryor, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  163   Comments: 1
Santa Fe car
Title:  Santa Fe car
Description:  This ex Santa Fe car was on display at Williams Arizona.
Photo Date:  4/4/2015  Upload Date: 9/23/2015 4:48:46 AM
Location:  Williams, AZ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  164   Comments: 1
Shop queen
Title:  Shop queen
Description:  This WATCO caboose has likely run its last miles long ago. It now sits at the entrance to the WATCO car shop at Coffeyville. Looks good for a display piece.
Photo Date:  6/14/2015  Upload Date: 10/25/2015 3:05:00 AM
Location:  Coffeyville, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  103   Comments: 1
DL van
Title:  DL van
Description:  This Delaware Lackawanna van is sitting in the Steamtown yard at Scranton. DL provides the freight service between here and Stroudsburg over the old DLW, with an all Alco roster.
Photo Date:  8/20/2015  Upload Date: 9/28/2015 2:53:17 AM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  120   Comments: 0
Museum piece
Title:  Museum piece
Description:  This Burlington caboose sits outside the former passenger station here, now part of the town museum.
Photo Date:  10/18/2016  Upload Date: 10/27/2016 4:37:03 AM
Location:  Beatrice, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  142   Comments: 0
Chamber of Commerce
Title:  Chamber of Commerce
Description:  Many towns along rail lines made an effort to get cabooses as the railroads shed them in the early and mid 80s. In many cases, the rail lines donated them, getting a tax write off. Quite a few of them became local information centers, or just ornaments near an old station or station site. Some, like this one at Acworth, GA, got painted in a show of civic pride. It looks like this one was a Santa Fe car in its working life.
Photo Date:  4/20/2017  Upload Date: 5/1/2017 4:21:39 AM
Location:  Acworth, GA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  52   Comments: 1
Downtown display
Title:  Downtown display
Description:  This Frisco caboose is adjacent to the former passenger station at Bentonville, whose track was taken up years ago. Its almost like they left it when the left town. It looks good here, as does the station, which is now privately owned.
Photo Date:  1/19/2018  Upload Date: 2/5/2018 4:23:42 AM
Location:  Bentonville, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Station
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Views:  117   Comments: 0
Santa Fe, sorta, maybe
Title:  Santa Fe, sorta, maybe
Description:  I was on a "geezer" bus tour which stopped for a meal break at this place called Barstow Station. It was NOT the ex ATSF Casa del Desierto, which would have been way too much to ask. This was a glorified gas station on the other side of the yard. It did have something of a rail theme, and the McDonalds there had several box cars that had been trucked in and parked as part of their restaurant. One of the more interesting pieces was this mock Santa Fe caboose.
Photo Date:  3/10/2019  Upload Date: 8/3/2019 5:00:01 AM
Location:  Barstow, CA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  42   Comments: 0
Frisco car
Title:  Frisco car
Description:  The Frisco donated a lot of their cabooses to on line communities, though Im wondering about this one, in a park on the west side of Springfield, as the number doesnt match the Friscos practice of four digit car numbers. Comment if you know...
Photo Date:  10/24/2023  Upload Date: 11/2/2023 6:14:08 AM
Location:  Springfield, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  44   Comments: 1
IC car northbound
Title:  IC car northbound
Description:  An IC caboose trails a northbound train entering Homewood yard
Photo Date:  10/9/1982  Upload Date: 4/24/2013 1:12:57 AM
Location:  Homewood, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  335   Comments: 2


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