Any Road/Short Line Caboose still in operation?

Why aren't you patriotic enough the type USA? We veterans don't appreciate crap like "Hew Hess Hay"!

I have been to Alaska several time since 2004 and have seen several. I love Norfolk Southern but my heart will always be in Alaska, I have my own special railroad that has a place where the Norfolk Southern and Alaska meet.

My little own part of The United States of America

Oo-Rah!

E-5 United States Marine Corp 1966-1972

Semper Fi

Dennis S.:  When and where was that?  And whose road?  Looks like Colorado but

maybe the Canadian Rockies? Caboose on the back, for sure...

Dennis, your bottom message did not come up as I replied...Alaska...I thought of that

but thought it was too wild a guess...  Beautiful shot..and glad they are still using

them, as I guess this is recent.  Wonder why...state law, or conditions of winter

climate?  The one state I have never been in...looks like I have missed something..

They are used in some cases as a "shoving platform". 

You will see cabeese on the Union RR and on the Buffalo & Pittsburgh....and I've seen a caboose with a Bessemer switcher in Butler PA at the steel mill (Armco Steel..AK Steel?)

UP uses ex CNW bay window cabooses for reverse moves around O'Hare Airport and elsewhere in the Chicago area. I never have my camera with me when I see them. Drat!

Flash: There's a contrasting shot of the old and the new...caboose towed by two of the new "economy" multi-motored diesels.  From other comments above it looks like I guessed right that there would be a few cabooses trundling on, on shortlines and industrial railroads.

Like hunting down surviving railroad stations and other facilities, another camera

target to search for.

The Alaska RR use the cabooses since their switches are manual, passenger trains are not that long so the conductor gets out to throw the switch, when leaving the Fairbanks yard there we two yard helper riding ahead of the engine to throw switches manually. The Alaska Railroad is amazing how well it functions and remains profitable using many of the old school methods.

Hot Water, I think it works this way. When you put on your uniform, you protected coloradohirailer's right to say whatever he wants.

          Just a reminder,

          Thanks for your service

No matter how stupid it makes him sound...

Rusty

And Hot Water has the same right to speak up as coloradohirailer.  Freedom to say your piece doesn't just extend to civilians (grateful or not).

Anyway...  back on topic...  I have seen a caboose being used in one of the Toledo (OH) yards just off I-75.  I can't remember the name of the yard but it is/was just east of the Ann Arbor RR yard.  I have also seen them on the Norfolk Southern tracks near Detroit Metro Airport.  I'm not sure how long it has been since my last sighting though.

Here in my town they regularly (daily?) use a BN caboose when collecting stray freight cars from the industrial spurs.  There's a couple of geeps with a caboose hooked to them sitting by the depot right now.

Kent in SD

Photo taken with 1880s vintage Watson & Son camera

and 1884 Dallmeyer lens, Efke 25.

Kent great photo!!!

The Maine.Montreal& Atlantic uses modified cabooses for remote control units, coupled with locomotives.

CSX in Rocky Mount, NC uses an old caboose on the local job depending on the length of the train being pushed.  Also I think they still use one on trains from Warsaw, NC to Clinton, NC; due to there being no run-around in Clinton they back the trains all the way from Warsaw (13-14 miles). 

Steve A.

U.S.A.

Here is the NS local in Roanoke on 1 June 2012.  This one can be seen frequently on the Roanoke Rail Cam. 

The conductor is the engineers eyes-front as the caboose leads the west-bound push past the N&W station/Link Museum

NS cabs are used all over the Pokey in WVA/VA on mine runs. Most of them are of former NW heritage.