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The interior of an Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad caboose in 1943. Use of cabooses began in the 1830s, when railroads housed trainmen in shanties built onto boxcars or flatcars. [9] The caboose provided the train crew with a shelter at the rear of the train. The crew could exit the train for switching or to protect the rear of the train when stopped.
The Red Caboose Motel (originally named the Red Caboose Lodge) is a 48-room train motel in the Amish country near Ronks, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, [2] where guests stay in railroad cabooses. [3] The motel consists of over three dozen cabooses and other railroad cars, such as dining cars that serve as a restaurant.
It was built in 1920 by the St. Louis Southwestern Railway (aka the Cotton Belt) at its Pine Bluff, Arkansas shop, and is one of only a few surviving 2300-series cabooses. It was used by the railroad on its Paragould-Blytheville route and was acquired by the Paperton Junction Southern Railway in 1980 and restored. [2]
Converted to caboose by Chicago Freight Car Parts Co. in 1943 for use on the WP&YR (USA #90861). [117] Renumbered to 861 in 1944. Sold to the WP&YR in 1947 (#861). Converted to Bunk Car #X14 in 1955. Named Katler's Castle, 1962~1965 [8] (for Karl Kattler [1905-1971], WP&YR section foreman). Re-converted back to caboose and renumbered to 2nd 911 ...
In November, 2023, it was reported that the Essex Steam Train & Riverboat in Essex, Connecticut, which is a heritage railroad that is operated by the Valley Railroad Co., purchased No. 1352. [ 28 ] Frisco 1355 , built by ALCO in 1912 as a 2-8-0 Consolidation (Frisco 1318), and converted in October 1945 [ 26 ] to a 2-8-2 Mikado in Frisco's main ...
In addition, a number of the railroad's 145 steel cabooses have been preserved along with soo line 4402 which (as of 2025) has returned to active duty SOO 4598, an EMD GP39-2 , trails on a train through Oconomowoc, Wisconsin , on October 13, 2019.
The Kansas City Southern Railway Caboose No. 383 is a historic railroad caboose in Centennial Park near Arkansas Highways 59 and 72 in Gravette, Arkansas. It was built in 1952 by the Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad, a division of the Kansas City Southern Railway, and served the latter until 1990. It was given to the city of Gravette in 1991 ...
Additional equipment from the west coast narrow gauges is displayed at the Nevada County Narrow Gauge RR Museum, in Nevada City, CA, Laws Depot Museum, and at the Grizzly Flats Railroad (donated to Southern California Railway Museum after Ward Kimball's death) along with a Westside Lumber caboose. The Huckleberry Railroad in Flint, Michigan ...