Thank you for this video. I have an Illinois Central extended porch caboose on my family Farm. I am a Catholic priest, and I use my caboose as my home on the farm, my couple of days off each week. I am on the hunt for another caboose or more to use as guestrooms for my retreat center on the farm.
Short but oh-so-sweet Harrison! And you'd better believe every freight train on my layout's got a caboose on the back end. I mean, how do you know the train's over with no caboose? Say, who was providing that very stentorian narration at the beginning of the video? He sounded a bit familiar...
There's the Milford-Bennington in Milford NH using a bay window to shove to the pit and on the tail back to Milford. Conway Scenic in N Conway NH has a bunch for summer homes for the crews
Nicely done. I know BNSF using a caboose (shoving platform) on the Japanese Gluch haul to Boeing as a safety measure and of course the I have seen the Navy Nuclear trains have them for security
I like to see the caboose at the end of long freight trains. You see them nowadays just at the state borders for long hauls. Other places they use a caboose once in a blue moon not too often. The deliveries they make are local runs. That's probably why you rarely see a caboose. It disappoints me blah.
The NH Northcoast Railroad has a caboose, occassionly used as a shoving platform. It also has been used to take local officials and shippers on a tour of the line, usually during the foliage season. Has also made an appearence at the Union NH depot open house.
A new Caboose in 1989 was $80,000, and a TOT/FRED was $2,500(As I've been told and some documentation has indicated). So every railroad with half a brain did what any 2 year old with a since to make money would do and ditched the caboose. 35 years later the last main line cabooses are reserved for special loads and routes where the conductor needs to be the eyes of the engineer. all other operating cabooses are for scenic railroads that offer the caboose rider experience.
@@NorthCountryTrains I am planning to go down there when I have some time off from my trade school. My goal is to take photos and take copious amounts of 8mm film with a Cannon AE-1 (1979-1982) and a Sony camcorder from the mid-90s. My uncle has an early 80s Chevrolet Impala station wagon that has been in the family since new (the company my grandfather worked for bought it to transport molds and my grandfather bought it almost a year after being the one who drove it). Effectively I want the photos and footage to look like it was taken slightly after bankruptcy with the Chevrolet Impala in the background. For now, I would just take my Canon AE-1 and the Sony Camcorder and hope the best.
