Cabooses with EOT Devices?

Yes. I mounted a MTH EOT truck on the back of a Williams caboose with no problems. You could also use a blinking light from Evans.

http://mthtrains.com/content/20-89010

http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com/bl-213-f.html

http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com/fred.html

In addition to the suggestion made by Chris, Atlas made some cabeese with a flashing EOT mounted on the frame above the rear door. I seem to remember something about those interfering with a DCS signal

The MTH EOT truck is a great choice.

Paul

So you are putting a EOTD on a caboose after the EODT replaced 99% of the cabeese flock?.

This sounds like a government program! How large is the grant? How much can I get to retrofit each caboose?

It depends on the era one is trying to model. Steam era, obviously those "End Of Train" devices hadn't been invented yet. If modeling today's modern era, there are some railroad jobs that REQUIRE a caboose (shoving platform), and that caboose would require an EOT device, in order to send the brake-pipe pressure and movement data to the "Mary" device in the locomotive cab, so the Engineer can monitor air pressure/movement at the rear of his train.

Thanks for the tips Paul and Chris. If using the MTH EOTD does it interfere with the interior illumination at all? Any rewiring or splicing need to be done?

Bill

Yes, as Hot Water said cabooses are still used today. When I worked on NS there was a job out of Newark DE. that we would make a shove move from Chrysler yard down the NEC to a plant that we switched, we would ride a caboose for about 25 miles. That was fun.

Bill

What is a shove move and why is it done?  It sound like in that case the caboose is leading the train, not trailing?

It's when the train is pushed, going backwards. Depending on how long the move is a caboose is used. So technically yes the caboose is "leading the train". 

Bill