03-06-2009, 03:01 PM
I see a caboose being used almost every day. The BNSF has a spur that runs on the old Milwaukee mainline from Council Bluffs,to Bayard, Iowa. The trains originate in the Gibson yard in South Omaha and have to be pushed up to intersect with the UPRR mainline to cross the Missouri River bridge. They have to have the caboose for the pushing operation. It must be the only one they have in the area that is operation because it is always the same one, green covered with graffiti. When it passes where I see it here in Council Bluffs here isn't anyone in the caboose and it is outfitted with a RED.