When I was a kid, back in the 60s, I remember watching Captain Kangaroo one time and on the show they did a song called Little Red Caboose. Whenever my mom took me some place in the car and we had to stop at a crossing to let the train go by, my mom would see the end of the train and say - there goes the caboose, end of the line. It sure was, mom.
Dang! Now they got this thing that just chops the train cars up piece by piece like a robot dinosaur t-rex...lol. I was used to seeing the cabooses on trains back then, then the RR's decided a flashing box on the end was good enough...miss them. Great footage! 5*****!
Wisconsin Central, CP Rail and CN are railroads that have restored and remodeled their cabooses since this was taken. CSX looks even more broke down seeing this scrapping.
It's sad, but they aren't ALL gone. A lot of them have been preserved, and some even still see revenue service. The CSX local around here often has a transfer caboose anyway. I've also seen an old Monongahela Railway caboose on a NS MOW train.
Awww today I went to the Elephant Walk Where i live And We Celebrated The Birthday Of our Dear Train Caboose! Well, Atleast It Was sort of Fun but, i Want To see The Caboose Sometime.. :( I REALLY want To See Caboose!!!!!!!
The flashing boxes at the rear are eot. It means end of train device. Unfortunately when a train gets to be too long the eot loses contact with the head end and now the train is restricted in its speed. Usually down to 30 mph. Most trains now days are too long. Usually around around 6800 feet is when the eot starts to lose communication. Many trains these days greatly exceed this length.
+Sapphire Rain They cut them apart with acetylene cutting torches. So some of the wood framing will burn during the process, resulting in small fires that eventually burn out.
the Canadian pacific has some to maitnance of way use and a few in yards ..and till they stopped using tranfer run belt pack units locomotives would have a caboose on the lampton yard transfer run from toronto's agincourt marshaling yard to the lampton in west toronto with caboose for control usualy with a retired Sw9 made into a slug mated to a gp9 mother
Scrap iron is money. sad but true. Think about this an old beat up caboose that can not be rebuilt should go to the scrap yard. Now if one is in good condition then sell it.
Another name trainmen had for eots was fred. It stood for fing rear end device. If they were hanging fred on the rear end of the train you knew what he meant.
They started disappearing in the late 80s and early 90s. The bigger lines, now run by mostly lawyers have figured out that by offering more money the conductors would sell out the brakemen. Now they want to run trains with engineers only and with computerized trains, which they now have had for a few years, not even engineers. They break union agreements every day and don't care. It is all about money. Expect more of the types of accidents they had in East Palestine. The only problem the railroads had with that accident was that they had to blame it on faulty equipment and not the crew. Believe me, the crew was thoroughly drug tested afterwards first. Then they had to come up another explanation. Trains will continue to get bigger. Money talks.
When I was a kid, back in the 60s, I remember watching Captain Kangaroo one time and on the show they did a song called Little Red Caboose. Whenever my mom took me some place in the car and we had to stop at a crossing to let the train go by, my mom would see the end of the train and say - there goes the caboose, end of the line. It sure was, mom.
R.I.P MR. CABOOSE
1867-1995
Sad...I remember these when new...and sat in those bucket seats many a trip!
It's sad that a good amount of them ended up like this
Dang! Now they got this thing that just chops the train cars up piece by piece like a robot dinosaur t-rex...lol. I was used to seeing the cabooses on trains back then, then the RR's decided a flashing box on the end was good enough...miss them. Great footage! 5*****!
That sucks! How sad for us rail fans to see them doing this. Thanks for the video.
Wisconsin Central, CP Rail and CN are railroads that have restored and remodeled their cabooses since this was taken.
CSX looks even more broke down seeing this scrapping.
Andrew Falconer the transkentuky transportation railroad still retains it's own Caboose and did I mention it's a u boat stronghold
It's sad, but they aren't ALL gone. A lot of them have been preserved, and some even still see revenue service. The CSX local around here often has a transfer caboose anyway. I've also seen an old Monongahela Railway caboose on a NS MOW train.
Damn! That's a sad way to go for a caboose! At least I still see a caboose or two still in use where i'm from!
What a bummer! They are worth so much more than scrap value nowadays
there are still some around even some with the old road names on them
Awww today I went to the Elephant Walk Where i live And We Celebrated The Birthday Of our Dear Train Caboose! Well, Atleast It Was sort of Fun but, i Want To see The Caboose Sometime.. :( I REALLY want To See Caboose!!!!!!!
The flashing boxes at the rear are eot. It means end of train device. Unfortunately when a train gets to be too long the eot loses contact with the head end and now the train is restricted in its speed. Usually down to 30 mph. Most trains now days are too long. Usually around around 6800 feet is when the eot starts to lose communication. Many trains these days greatly exceed this length.
I will miss those apartments on wells
If I was there when this happened, I would have gotten one of those chessie marker lamps.
Oh, I see.
1 Rock 'n' Roll Too Many!
Also, How did The Caboose catch On Fire?
+Sapphire Rain They cut them apart with acetylene cutting torches. So some of the wood framing will burn during the process, resulting in small fires that eventually burn out.
@mygirl22ward I know how you feel:-(
the Canadian pacific has some to maitnance of way use and a few in yards ..and till they stopped using tranfer run belt pack units locomotives would have a caboose on the lampton yard transfer run from toronto's agincourt marshaling yard to the lampton in west toronto with caboose for control
usualy with a retired Sw9 made into a slug mated to a gp9 mother
Wow
They should make them into temporary dwellings for the homeless.
Yeah no
Scrap iron is money. sad but true. Think about this an old beat up caboose that can not be rebuilt should go to the scrap yard. Now if one is in good condition then sell it.
Another name trainmen had for eots was fred. It stood for fing rear end device. If they were hanging fred on the rear end of the train you knew what he meant.
Those trucks are worth money
from what I could see I don't see a thing wrong with hardly any of them.
shame they have to do that , couldn't they donate them to a museum ?
Forgot to ask where this was???
When was this!!!!!!!!!
28 suicides from watching this video
They started disappearing in the late 80s and early 90s. The bigger lines, now run by mostly lawyers have figured out that by offering more money the conductors would sell out the brakemen. Now they want to run trains with engineers only and with computerized trains, which they now have had for a few years, not even engineers. They break union agreements every day and don't care. It is all about money. Expect more of the types of accidents they had in East Palestine. The only problem the railroads had with that accident was that they had to blame it on faulty equipment and not the crew. Believe me, the crew was thoroughly drug tested afterwards first. Then they had to come up another explanation. Trains will continue to get bigger. Money talks.
Did you save a chair at least???
thats cockroach2008 in that red hat.
Awful