He especially likes the caboose cupola, he explained, because "they sit up there until the driver tells them something, and then they go on foot to see what is the matter." ...

The caboose now is planned to be not just a static display but a working museum – becoming part of the society's rail excursions, including the annual Santa trains popular with families.

When it was a working caboose starting in 1951, it carried a brakeman and a conductor. From the cupola they could watch for problems ahead — like smoke from a bad bearing — and radio the engineer.

A century ago, trains chugged through Citrus County carrying passengers, freight and even the U.S. mail. Today, a lone caboose in Inverness stands as a tribute to that bygone era.

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NORTH CONWAY, N.H. -- John and Nellie Egan are at the end of the line -- and that's where they like it. The semi-retired train conductor and his wife spend their summers in a remodeled caboose ...

Consider the township's renovated Erie Caboose. The Mahwah Museum and Mahwah Historic Preservation Commission will unveil the restored exterior of the circa-1929 train car at a ribbon-cutting ...

Boulder caboose history Around 1900 — Caboose No. 04990 was built as a boxcar. 1919 — It was converted into a caboose and used on Rio Grande Western Narrow Gauge Line, which traveled from ...