Friday, March 16, 2018. What Happened To The Caboose? What happened to the caboose? The question is not unusual, especially outside of the railfan community. Locked deep in the American consciousness is the memory of the caboose, typically red and with the signature cupola on top, trailing at the end of a freight train. Iron Men, Hotboxes and Dangerous Cargo.
Is a web scrapbook featuring 70 years of railroad photography, shared by a father and two sons, highlighting locomotives, lines, and locations across the southern and eastern United States. Year on the web, we welcome you aboard our online excursion through our many railfan memories.
This was a spur line that branched off the Delaware and Hudson Railroad in Carbondale. This set is actually behind a bridge abutment of the NY Ontario and Western Railroad.
By the end of 1850 Georgia had the most rail miles. More than a century and a half later, it continues to be a railroad leader.