WOW! Train Cabooses Are Still Used??

[@wideslammer]

We had a very heavy snowfall in 1965 just as I was getting ready to go home on spring-break from college. I took a passenger train westbound to a town 20 miles south of my home. The roads were impassable so my family was unable to come and get me. Fortunately, the crew from a freight train was in the depot. They were ready to run a string of cars north through and beyond my home town. They heard of my dilemma and offered to let me come along in the caboose. I wasn't allowed into the cupola but still enjoyed the ride in with the heated comfort of the wood (or oil) burning stove. Some of the cuts along the line were filled with snow. Several times the crew would separate part of the train from the engine and some cars. I was told that the front of the train was taking runs at the drifts in order to break through. When successful, they would back up, couple up the rest of the train and proceed to the next place where the train would get stopped by the snow. It took a couple of hours to get to my town. It was a short walk from the depot to my home.

[@francisschweitzer8431]

That’s an awesome story

[@FEDEX_MD-11F]

Wow, that would not slide now days nor would anyone be nice enough to do that

[@BeeFunKnee]

The only thing that could have possibly made your story better would be if it had been Christmas Break instead of Spring Break. Loved it. I pictured it being me that it happened to, too.

[@MRTHUNDER.]

When you think about it then time between 2000 and today is the same time gap between 1965 and WW2

[@Stoker58]

Great Video! The Union Railroad in Pittsburgh PA still regularly uses bay window cabooses on all road trains. This is due to a combination of only one train using an EOT due to a tonnage requirement (this train still uses a caboose in combination with the EOT) and very long shove movements. They’re equipped with horns, air gauges, and diesel heaters.

[@MrNorth69]

Horns?

[@Stoker58]

@@MrNorth69 Yes, horns to blow for crossings during shove moves.

[@MrNorth69]

@@Stoker58 I've rode 3 to 4 mile long shoves over many crossings. definitely needed a horn

[@trainman2k]

Wonderful video! For the "Traveling Railfans" out there, in Titusville, Pennsylvania, there is "THE CABOOSE MOTEL" where you can spend the night in a genuine caboose from one of any number of fallen flag roads. These cabooses are very,very well appointed and comfortable as well as adjacent to the "OIL CREEK & TITUSVILLE RAILROAD" station! Just a little 'Heads Up" for folks

[@francisschweitzer8431]

Illinois Railway Museum ( Union IL ) has several that they lash up and roll out as an excursion ride. The kids love it.

[@karltork6040]

They usually run the Caboose train during "Diesel Days", the second weekend in August.

[@the101stdalmatian8]

Author Mike Shaffer relates a humorous story regarding cabooses. Seems there was a Yard foreman who was tasked with giving a local boy-scout trope a tour of a railroad yard. They went all over the yard, from the engineshops to the hump tower and scales. Towards the end of the tour, they were given the option to tour the inside of a caboose. By this point, the foreman had been with the trope all day and was getting tired. He decided to just take them over to the caboose storage tracks, unlock the door of the most convenient caboose, and let them go inside in small groups and tour at their own speed, come out and let the next group go in. All while he waited outside. One by one, the young boys filed into the car. After a few moments, the foreman noticed that they were not coming out. Soon, the whole trope was inside. Wondering as to what was going on, the foreman hopped up and entered the caboose. The inside of the caboose was plastered end-to-end with nude pinups pulled from playboy magazines. Railroaders are railroaders. Your historic photos are tame. :D

[@golfberg1]

HILARIOUS 😅

[@ryanfrogz]

It sucks that the railroads have boarded & locked the cabooses, especially up here in the north- even on frigid winter days, conductors are forced to stand outside in temperatures that are often below zero.

[@WorthlessNickores]

That's what happens you you get _urban explorers_ trespassing on the railroad and graffiti _artists_ using private property for their coloring book.

[@UltraMagaFan2]

@@WorthlessNickoresCall them what they are. They’re thugs, not “urban explorers”.

[@thekingquail]

@@WorthlessNickoresI really hate graffiti

[@abecks8093]

Is cabeese acceptable as a plural form of caboose? I’ve heard other railfans use it.

[@Signal_Box_Studios]

Cabeese is my preferred term.

[@francisschweitzer8431]

Cabooson …. Many Much Cabooson

[@cadetkohr5508]

In the woods, the woodes, THE WOODSEN

[@ScottKew-g8r]

I never did get an actual concrete answer to the plural of caboose. But I really like CABEESE....TOMATO ....TOEMATO

[@abecks8093]

Cabeese is my favorite. I do like cabooson, never heard that before.

[@WorthlessNickores]

Graffiti makes this once great nation look like a 3rd world dystopia with no structure, law or order. Trains used to be a sight to behold now they look like an inner city dumpster with wheels under it.

[@maxrockatansky3102]

Agreed

[@meanwolverine4573]

In a perfect Norman Rockwell world, taggers would only touch up to the line's original design! We know they're good painters.

[@josephschuster1494]

Excellent presentation on my favorite railway car…the caboose! Keep up the fine videos! 🚂 🇺🇸

[@stevenplyler6306]

The New York & Lake Erie Railroad just received a Bay window caboose from the Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad, plus a former Seaboard track geometry observation car a former Atlanta passenger rail car as well.

[@kens.3729]

Absolutely, YES! A Number of Railroads are using them for a Variety of Reasons and it’s Great to See them out on the High Rails across the U.S. 🇺🇸👍

[@thomasmackowiak]

Thank you for this video on the history and use of cabooses and how they are currently being used as shoving platforms for train crews! I enjoyed watching this video! (Posted on 30 September 2024 at 2333 CDT.)

[@richardjulien8745]

Hi Charlie ,another interesting videos,As a former motorcoach operator,many years ago I bought a group of railroad enthousiasts in north conway , new hampshire at theconway scenic railroad,for a day visit,and I saw many old cabooses refurbushed like a mini cabin with bright colors .It was like a little camping site,Very interesting site.keep the good work Charlie,always follow you from a subscriber in Canada.

[@stanpatterson5033]

The term "EOT" is still relevant, but the modern day end-of-train device has become quite sophisticated by comparison to the first generations of FRED (flashing rear end device). The modern-day EOT is now called an SBU, or Sense and Braking Unit. They monitor brake pipe pressure, have a GPS built in so will sense motion, or lack thereof. And of course, via radio comm with the front end, can help speed up emergency applications by simultaneously dumping the air from the rear (while the loco dumps from the front), this speeds up the evacuation of the brake pipe's air pressure, helping all the brakes come on a lot sooner than if all the air had to exhaust forward only. This generation of SBU will detect a problem and send radio signal forward, if necessary initiating a "dump" from both ends without input from the locomotive engineer, which can be helpful in the sense of getting the brakes on sooner in a real emergency, but can also be a source of frustration in the event of a bogus emergency application, where, the conductor must walk the length of the train only to discover that there seems to be no good reason why the train was brought to a complete halt. Sometimes, these "smarter" generation of devices have become too smart for their own good.

[@tylerrose5232]

No one is reading all that

[@MrNorth69]

According to the "mainstream news" we're still using civil equipment, such as engines, track, cars, and brakes.. that takes 25 miles to stop

[@old_school_guy]

One good thing about the EOT reading on the head is when rear numbers go to zero and it takes a bit to go into emergency on head end then you know the culprit is near the rear. Like a separation or blown hose. Emergency applications move at 900ft per second.

[@Txloganc]

@@tylerrose5232i did

[@Txloganc]

@@MrNorth6925 miles?

[@kens.3729]

Excellent job with this video. Keep up the Consistent and Strong 💪 Efforts because it is Noticed and Appreciated? Thanks, Charlie! 👍🙏

[@v12productions]

Thank you! Will do!

[@CowpoteAdventures]

I'm going to buy one for my cabin

[@rodneystewart8958]

On my list also make a nice mancave

[@jamielacourse7578]

Don't forget the coffee pot.......

[@rodneystewart8958]

@jamielacourse7578 no the big screen and beer fridge

[@TylerTheBassCreator]

You won't

[@philhoward4466]

i can't decide whether to put it in my backyard or my frontyard. maybe i just need to buy two cabooses.

[@kennethboucher7663]

The so-called MP transfer caboose was used for divisional runs. I rode in many of them between Portland, OR and Seattle, WA. I didn’t care for them at all on through freight. They were extremely loud and rode terribly. I wore ear plugs so I didn’t go deaf. Later, I had one for use as a shoving platform on a traveling switcher. It was great for that until the railroad had the doors welded shut. That prevented the train crew from getting inside, out of the weather. 14:27 14:27

[@MikeyDee25]

Don't forget the Red Caboose Motel in Strasburg, PA. The Strasburg RR runs right by the location which has a variety of cabeese that can be booked for stays while one visits the Penn Dutch countryside, the Strasburg RR, or the Rail Road Museum of Pennsylvania which is up the road apiece from the motel!

[@paulalmquist5683]

I stayed there once for sure, maybe twice. A friend from PA stayed there on his honeymoon.

[@MikeyDee25]

@@paulalmquist5683 Funny story, I rode AMTRAK down to Orlando on my honeymoon. Don't ask why! 😀

[@jasonervoes1326]

​@@MikeyDee25cabooses are still in service just for long hauls over the state borders. other places use cabooses once in a blue moon not too often probable because it's all local runs.

[@Peter-mt6lg]

They installed a 2 chime air horn on the caboose for shoving moves, plenty of air pressure provided by the U-18B God I miss those days.

[@Peter-mt6lg]

We had to Shove 2 miles with 6 cross buck crossing's .

[@Oviedo_Train_Trust]

Amazing, watch your content all the time!

[@v12productions]

Thanks!

[@bowlinerailfan]

There's a bay window caboose on a CSX branch line in Bainbridge Georgia that has the same paint scheme (and similar graffiti covering 😒) as the one you showed from Athens. This one is used when the yard crew runs the branch line down to the Florida Gulf and Atlantic Railroad for interchange runs. This video is also well timed as I recently discovered a preserved Atlantic Coast Line caboose coupled up to a preserved Seaboard Coast Line boxcar next to a Alabama Midland depot in Ashford Alabama, just east of Dothan. It was a great surprise.

[@ScottKew-g8r]

Very Cool Video you have here. I love the old oddball stuff that is still being used here and there today. Real video treasure you have here. Thank you for posting this.

[@v12productions]

Thanks!

[@RailfanLoy]

My model railroad club owns a former N&W caboose

[@rickdee67]

Where?

[@RailfanLoy]

@@rickdee67 children’s museum of oak ridge

[@MrEferrell]

NS 555512 up in NY has a full set of horns, actually sounds like a train is coming. CSX has cabooses with remote control systems inside for switching. It is paired to a locomotive that doesn't have remote control with the MU cable. Basically it says to the engine, "I'm the boss. Do what I tell you."

[@bjjt-nu9dx]

Not seeing info on RR damage in western NC and East TN. Perhaps a "wartime" urgency including using military resources to restore service could deliver aid in volumes necessary, far more than trucks, helicopters, etc.

[@johnnydeville5701]

The Hobo Inn in Elbe, Washington is a great place to stay. They have cabooses and box cars. We stayed in the "Family Suite" which is a box car. It was so much fun! There's also 2 Pullman passenger cars, turned into a restaurant and a pizza joint. Beautiful drive to get there, and then keep going to the beautiful Mt Rainer National Park.

[@jerrysinclair3771]

Another great video by V12 Productions

[@v12productions]

Thanks!

[@ericsundell9978]

As a conductor, thank the stars there's still some around for some of the locals/work that has to be done. I see some folks lamenting about the ones that are welded shut, but boy, I'll tell you what I'd rather have the worlds crappiest shoving platform than do a long shove hanging off the side of a tank car or something.

[@truckinpoppop6777]

I love the detail of your videos. I always learn something 👍🏼

[@v12productions]

Thanks!

[@v12tommy]

Union Pacific has an active bay window caboose near me in Denver that they use at least once a week. They drop off and pickup cars for a lumber yard and a scrap yard. They'll go down the BNSF mainline, then drop off or pickup cars while leaving the caboose sitting on the main, then recouple and back down the mainline back north to Denver. I'm not sure if they do paperwork in the caboose, or just use it as a comfortable platform to stand on. They back down the mainline about 11 miles total, and there are only 5 or 6 grade crossings along the way, all of which have gates.

[@z_dog7739]

Here on the Appalachia District, we still use cabooses quite a lot. We use them to bring up the rest of a few of our long branches or long travel over the mainline. and we use them daily on shoves.

[@orlandorailfanproductions314]

4:47 the CSX Goodman yard in Rochester New York has a caboose similar to that one. You forgot to mention the Chessie system caboose that's also in Folkston

[@BhartiyaRailJunction]

In india, we still have caboose in daily regular freight trains & a train manager Onboard

[@m.hussain6927]

Caboose are still used in Pakistan,they are bit smaller because our railway still uses those old British things,caboose are in red colour,and mostly on all freight trains

[@Athenstrainman]

It's not often at all that you hear the locomotive horn in conjunction with the caboose horn. Awesome video Charlie.

[@v12productions]

Thanks man.

[@MygrandpasTrain]

This confirms what I've been seeing at night in the local CN railyard near my house- a boarded up old WC caboose is connected to short freight runs to the next town south. I don't recall seeing it ever used before 2020.

[@TomZ23]

3:40 People can be real A-holes putting that graffiti on the caboose.

[@williamjones4483]

@0:49 IDOX - United States Department of Energy (Idaho Operations Office). That burnt SCL caboose looks creepy.

[@nealgold8442]

Great video and historical commentary.

[@v12productions]

Thanks!

[@JessicaKasumi1990]

I use the term cabin car. Used mostly by my favorite fallen flag, the Pennsylvania Railroad.

[@colinwallace5286]

I remember waving at the conductor as he went by in one of the projecting windows, watching the train ahead as he went around a long curve.

[@mikeyanello3664]

Very good commentary Buddy

[@williamjameson478]

I have stayed in the gray caboose in Folkston many times. It is always fun to stay there!

[@carblox2229]

For anyone wondering: The museum at the end is the NC Department Of Transportation museum in Charlotte NC. (Yes that is were to look :)

[@KevinCSX]

I am an Airman for CSX, we also plug in EOT’s to charge and they also have 5G tracking.

[@ppip75]

There are two I use in Illinois, I’m not sure of the numbers but one operates in the sidings in Channahon, Illinois. The other seems to be attached and runs with grain card that park near the 187 highway mile marker on I57 near the silos when the cars are there also. That one is a tan CN model

[@jamespercival3111]

Ronks, PA, near Lancaster, across the road from the PA Railroad Museum. The Red Caboose Motel.

[@golfberg1]

As a Child I always anticipated the Caboose. 😊

[@markelder7160]

Everything about a train is awesome form diesel, steam or a caboose.

[@Ace51_official]

I think last month or so, I happened to catch a CSX shunting move in New Brunswick that had a Conrail Caboose. It even appeared to be in pristine condition.

[@nw6115]

A while back this summer i had went to a "rail camp" at the Virginia museum of transportation. i friend of mine i had met there walked through the line of rail equipment and called it the art gallery

[@fluxthelycanroc9603]

Yes they do. We use one for a local we run because to work said local it involves shoving down a 6 mile lead over several crossings including a few country highways. So instead of riding the side of a car or on a tank if we are lucky we have a old southern caboose we use. One of the guys actually put a horn on it

[@pinecone01]

I see you there, old photograph of an O&W bobber caboose. The O&W is very near and dear to me, so to see it randomly featured in an example photo of an old caboose is amusing.

[@user-vh1uc6in7b]

Great Job and this video!!!

[@UltraMagaFan2]

I never knew cabooses had wheel driven generators. I always thought the ones that had electricity were supplied by a diesel generator. That’s pretty cool.

[@AnalytiKroll]

5:29 Weird hearing this song talking about old trains and not nugget cars

[@kennethmaynard5046]

Out side of Stearn's Ky at one time a company took 12 caboose's and converted them into cabin's was never sure if they was opened or if they are still there.

[@carsonneeley4862]

There is a UP caboose in a park in Arthur, IL

[@danielferrovias]

That horn on the caboose. Sounds like the single chimes the G12s and the U10Bs use here.

[@fatherjamiedennis1270]

Thank you, this is one of the best informative caboose videos that I have observed in a long time. I am a caboose owner myself. I have two of them a Louisville and Nashville Bay window caboose and an Illinois Central wide vision extended porch caboose. I live in the Illinois Central caboose and the other caboose I just acquired a few weeks ago I will be using as guestrooms and a spare dining room. They sit on my family farm and I stay there a couple of days every week for my time away. Check them out on my KZbin channel. The caboose life is amazing.

[@ayayaybamba3445]

I bet you could have a pretty cool "hotel on the rails" train where every hotel room was it's own caboose.

[@Limtrain777]

HE UPLOADED LETS GOOOO YAYYY

[@ScottKew-g8r]

ISAAK WALTON INN has several cabooses on their property converted into very comfortable cabins.

[@Oklahomarailroadproductions]

We have a former KCS caboose sitting next to the highway and CPKC yard office in Heavener Oklahoma

[@jeffreymonroe4776]

theres a caboose campground in dunsmuir ca

[@RABSTRAINS]

Awesome Topic. Loved the video👍🙏🔥💪❤️🇺🇸

[@v12productions]

Thanks!

[@arthurhammeke8296]

I've seen a few of them used as rolling tool sheds on work trains.

[@CheeseMiser]

I might be running an augur wagon right now.But I have time watch a new train video from you

[@bob_._.]

8:02 looks like what they called a "brake van" in Britain, with an enclosed cab for the brakeman.

[@paulalmquist5683]

I heard a fan of British rail call it a "break van". I asked specifically about the spelling as I was not sure.

[@paulholmes672]

In England a "van" is also their name for a box car.

[@WesleyEast-RRfan]

Great video. You should make a video on tunnel motors i think that would make great topic.

[@v12productions]

I agree. Thanks!

[@WesleyEast-RRfan]

@@v12productions you bet

[@chuckerdusenbrew2515]

We still use them as shoving platforms at lake state everyday

[@AlanMullen-w1f]

Very cool. Thanks

[@donaldwantola5800]

There is a Caboose Campground not far from me outside Remington, Indiana along the TPW

[@CheeseMiser]

Hey, I live bear the tpw too. Just bit in indiana

[@cm-ek4ci]

Be cool to have a caboose as a private coach to travel around the country with 😊

[@bigwoz78]

Terrific video

[@v12productions]

Thanks!

[@petecartwright1622]

0:20 DID I JUST SAW A BRITISH RAIL TAIL LAMP AT THE BACK OF A AMERICAN CABOOSE/BRAKE-VAN

[@KaiTheCyberCat]

That is an EOT (End Of Train) device. I'm no expert, so take this with as much salt as you wish, but it pretty much provides the info of the rear of the train that a manned caboose would, like brake pressure and movement, to the front via radio. Oh, it also flashes red as a marker for the end of the train, giving it the alternate name FRED (flashing rear end device). Anyone more knowledgeable than me, feel free to correct me if needed, I just like sharing the knowledge I already have.

[@petecartwright1622]

@@KaiTheCyberCat i am a british person and that is 100% a british rail tail-lamp, look CLOSELY

[@cliffsaxon5493]

The Union City Terminal Railroad In Northwest Tennessee Has A Bay Window Caboose And Uses It.

[@DebbieSuttle]

These trains are differently awesome nice 😊❤

[@newbright2629]

That was funny v12 productions 😂😂😅 .

[@captainmorgan757]

At the 09:00 mark, that long multi axle car is called a Schnobble car.

[@nikerailfanningttm9046]

It’s not a Schnabel Car. A Schnabel Car is where the load is integrated into the car itself, by means of the two bracket ends carrying the weight of the load without any support under the center of the load. What is shown here is a heavy duty depressed center flatcar that is using two sets of span bolsters for five trucks on each side of the deck itself.

[@captainmorgan757]

@nikerailfanningttm9046 thank you for the clarification. We railroaders may be too broad in the use of the term.

[@XDFRailRoadCooler]

In 1984 a British nuclear flask was destroyed by a class 46 peak locomotive deliberately. To show the public that a nuclear flask was safe. You should try & look for train test crash 1984 nuclear flask.

[@nocturnalmayhem0]

lol csx hertiage units are just sad i give um credit for trying but NS set the bar high lol.

[@DENVERRIOGRANDEMAN21]

8:05 drover caboose

[@RFMCabooseNP1713]

Great video.

[@v12productions]

Thanks!

[@paulkoza8652]

Make America Great Again. Bring back the caboose.

[@TheDragonGuyYT]

Actually not just small towns have a caboose, North Kansas City, Missouri has a BN caboose right near a apartment highrise

[@SignalMan9292]

Actually a wide load passed by me yesterday with a caboose. I didn’t see it though

[@CarlosVazquez-p4c]

It's not railroading without the Cabooses. It should be a railroad tradition!!

[@wesless1111]

There's a Detroit & Mackinac caboose a town away from me

[@tvd1188]

Theres a caboose you can spend the night in at the Chester, MA rail museum.

[@stuew6]

I sleep in Caboose in Camp. The Camp had Three ExCN

[@modelmainline7278]

Just the other day I saw a cp yellow caboose on the end of a train in golden bc.

[@thomasdeturk5142]

Bring back all cabooses from retirement and extinction along with bringing back Steam Locomotives and Early vintage diesel locomotives.

[@POUNCEMAN1]

Love your channel ,,

[@25mfd]

the "contractual" end of the caboose happened in the very early 80s... article X of the 1982 national agreement... "Elimination of the caboose"

[@Tracksidebench]

I live in Massachusetts they use them on a work train and in some places ive seen on on yard jobs

[@Benthetrainkid]

You forgot that cabooses are called brake vans in UK/Europe

[@WyattBeauchamp-mx7eo]

Grate vid!

[@BradyMockros-m3g]

1:13 4968’s bell is messed up

[@tylercummins1070]

The MBTA still use a caboose on there maintenance train but it’s set up as a cab car.

[@MrNorth69]

That sounds interesting. is it similar to a Loram caboose?