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RE: about cabooses - LiveSteamer - 03-07-2025
(01-08-2025, 12:32 PM)hillyard999 Wrote: Update to an old thread:
Cabooses are still in use by the Union Pacific.
There is an SP Bay window caboose in the UP Pringle Yard, in Salem Oregon.
January, 2025.
I have seen it on locals.
IIRC there may be another in Albany Oregon.
CSX uses a chessie system caboose for the local that comes into Johnstown, Pa. It's used as a shoving platform but it's still pretty cool to see a caboose on the end of a train these days.
RE: about cabooses - hillyard999 - 03-09-2025
(03-07-2025, 05:00 PM)LiveSteamer Wrote: CSX uses a chessie system caboose for the local that comes into Johnstown, Pa. It's used as a shoving platform but it's still pretty cool to see a caboose on the end of a train these days.
Matt,
Interesting.
Any pictures?
RE: about cabooses - LiveSteamer - 03-09-2025
(03-09-2025, 10:24 AM)hillyard999 Wrote:(03-07-2025, 05:00 PM)LiveSteamer Wrote: CSX uses a chessie system caboose for the local that comes into Johnstown, Pa. It's used as a shoving platform but it's still pretty cool to see a caboose on the end of a train these days.
Matt,
Interesting.
Any pictures?
I will have to dig back through my photo's and see if I can find one.
RE: about cabooses - LiveSteamer - 03-09-2025
I couldn't find a photo but I did take a screenshot from a video my nephew sent me and here she is.
RE: about cabooses - hillyard999 - 03-12-2026
Well, apparently cabooses are popular. Who would have known?
Since updating this thread a little over a year ago, there have been more than 12,000 views.
Here's another fairly recent picture of SP caboose 4734 in action.
The UP local is shoving cars into the interchange with Portland and Western in Salem, OR.
photo date May 2022.
PS reminder to all of you:
remember that you are a local expert of what you see. Take lots of pictures.
if there's not a picture, then it didn't happen!
: )