Greed killed the caboose

This is what they took from us

How is this greed? Cabooses were no longer needed, so they were phased out for a relatively inexpensive substitute that did the job.

Let the caboose looose

They are being repurposed for generating revenue with Airbnb’s.

The Chattanooga Choo Choo is across the street from my office. They have a few old cars you can sleep in but almost everyone switches to a real room after trying them out

I met a guy who had 2 cabooses in his back yard. He lived within 100 yards of a train track. When they phased them out he bought 2 for the scrap price. The RR delivered them to the siding in his backyard. He had to build a temporary track from the rr to his yard.

Hell yeah!

@Matt_Elliott01 In Central WA there are a number of them. A b&b features two. We almost bought one for our property. They do have dome challenges - must like the fuel oil/sweat smell. 🤣

@TimothyDooner Ozone generator and new paint solves this

I remember the local BN branch in my hometown, Sidney, MT, used a caboose into the mid-90's; right up until the Great Pumpkin was created.

Old school rail heads must have been in charge

I literally seen 2 on a shuttle train around Springfield mo, today.

Obsolescence killed the caboose.

My folks live right on the transcon here in a Cheyenne. When I was a kid in the 90's id watch all these super colorful paint jobs of now fallen flags go by and the occasional caboose. I had no idea I was watching history infront of me.

Don’t know what you got until its gone

@LudaCrips422 ........Don't know what it is I did so wrong, Now I know what I got, Just this song. And it ain't easy to get back, Takes so long.

@LudaCrips422

@LudaCrips422 And yes, I know don’t know what you got is on long cold winter but the only gif they got on here is for Nobody’s Fool 😅

Technology killed the caboose.

Honestly... this is the perfect post-mortem of the modern world. We traded the caboose and the human eye for a flashing plastic box named FRED. Squeeze out an extra 2% in efficiency/profit by euthanizing the aesthetics and killing the vibe. Need to be Caboosemaxxing

Every HO-scale train layout has a caboose.

The trainspotters yearn for the caboose

The caboose was an office where the conductor did the paperwork for the freight cars on the train. Such paperwork becoming computerized also meant the caboose had no use. Some are still used as a place where the brake man stands on trains that frequently reverse

We need to be caboosemaxing

they took it off for weight, then overloaded the engines anyway, run them too fast, run them at night, aaaand then you get something like the east palastine explosion.

I’m glad I’m old enough to have seen the caboose in my childhood.

I loved waiting to see the caboose at the end of a train when I was a kid sitting in the car at a crossing.

Like the period at the end of a sentence. It completes the train

My Great Grandfather would load fat cattle at a rail yard and ride in the caboose to the Chicago stockyards On a return trip they were not scheduled to stop so he said just slow down and he’d hop off The Engineer forgot and Grandpa tucked and rolled

You could substitute your last word for almost any other one and it would hold true.

True

Trains also had as many as 5-6 man crews back then. Railroads being railroads, their greed cut the crew down to an Engineer and Conductor. No more need for the caboose.

I seen one today being used!

Oh yeah? Where at

Union city Tennessee!

The kaboose was entirely useless at that time. Break men were obsolete. That has nothing to do with greed, it's just stupidity to try to keep it.

Revisionist history! Caboose denier!

Still have one here goes by every weekday

Up until covid times the local NS branchline actually maintained a caboose for its trains since there was a part of the trip where they had to shove the train backwards. They'd post a guy up on the rear with a radio to watch for obstructions and flag them through crossings.

Greed? How about basic economics.

Caboose hater

😢😢😢

Food and security for very long trains, esp. in Canada.

@IKJLeio

And Fred was born ......Fucking Rear End Device

Jewish ideas ruined America.

Did greed kill the elevator operator?

You are so far from caboosemaxxxing that it is sad

My hometown still has ours painted and on display beside the tracks

Train's ass ends got smaller and women's got much larger!

Apparently with the newer super long trains (1-2+ miles in length), you would NOT want to be in a caboose when the train starts moving!

Looks like women started pulling them instead

Greed?

Yes. He even said so. They replaced it with a revue car