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[Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Herbert and Lou Hoover on train caboose]

[Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Herbert and Lou Hoover on trai...

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Conductor George E. Burton building a fire in the stove of the caboose on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad enroute to Chillicothe, Illinois

Conductor George E. Burton building a fire in the stove of the caboose...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Texico, New Mexico. Conductor E.K. Hill about to get off the caboose as an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe train pulls into a siding

Texico, New Mexico. Conductor E.K. Hill about to get off the caboose a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washbasin in a caboose on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Argentine and Emporia, Kansas. Spigot on the right is for drinking water; the one on the left is for wash water

Washbasin in a caboose on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad ...

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Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. The conductor's work desk in the caboose. The dial on the wall is an air pressure gauge

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Clovis, New Mexico. Toilet of a new caboose on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad

Clovis, New Mexico. Toilet of a new caboose on the Atchison, Topeka an...

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Conductor J.R. Crawford, watching the train from his window in the cupola of the caboose along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Canadian and Amarillo, Texas

Conductor J.R. Crawford, watching the train from his window in the cup...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A vintage locomotive plow at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

A vintage locomotive plow at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and reso...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

[Michigan Central Railroad caboose]

[Michigan Central Railroad caboose]

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Conductor F. T. Granstaff, working on his records in the caboose on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Marceline, Missouri and Argentine, Kansas

Conductor F. T. Granstaff, working on his records in the caboose on th...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in w...

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A vintage locomotive plow at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

A vintage locomotive plow at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and reso...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

As darkness approaches, brakeman M. H. Burdette lights his markers and gets them ready to hang on the rear end of the caboose on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Chillicothe, Illinois and Fort Madison, Iowa

As darkness approaches, brakeman M. H. Burdette lights his markers and...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Brakeman Jack W. Torbet preparing lunch on the caboose on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Waynoka, Oklahoma and Canadian, Texas

Brakeman Jack W. Torbet preparing lunch on the caboose on the Atchison...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Clovis, New Mexico. The tool compartment of a new caboose on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad

Clovis, New Mexico. The tool compartment of a new caboose on the Atchi...

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Old caboose at the Texas Forestry Museum, Lufkin, Texas

Old caboose at the Texas Forestry Museum, Lufkin, Texas

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in w...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in w...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

A black and white photo of a train car, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a train car, West Virginia. Farm Security A...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Brakeman H. L. Duffield, watching the train from the window in the cupola of the caboose on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Emporia and Wellington, Kansas

Brakeman H. L. Duffield, watching the train from the window in the cup...

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Conductor W. E. Zink, watching the train from his window in the cupola of the caboose on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Emporia and Wellington, Kansas

Conductor W. E. Zink, watching the train from his window in the cupola...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. Brakeman L.E. Capsey preparing a meal in the caboose enroute to Gallup, New Mexico

Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. Brakeman L.E. Capsey preparin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. The crew is going to the yard "light," so the caboose is picked up and they are ready to go

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Vaughn, New Mexico. A caboose on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard converted from an old box car

Vaughn, New Mexico. A caboose on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rai...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway depot, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in w...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Chicago, Illinois. Conductor waiting to hop aboard the caboose of a southbound freight at an Illinois Central Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Conductor waiting to hop aboard the caboose of a so...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa. The conductor standing on the caboose platform ready to hop off as the train passes the yard office at the end of the trip

Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad betw...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conductor G. Reynolds, checking his waybills in the caboose of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Argentine and Emporia, Kansas

Conductor G. Reynolds, checking his waybills in the caboose of the Atc...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conductor (right) and brakeman, in their places in the cupola of the caboose on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Argentine and Emporia, Kansas. On the wall between them is the air gauge showing the amount of air brake pressure in the train

Conductor (right) and brakeman, in their places in the cupola of the c...

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Conductor George E. Burton heats some coffee on the stove in the caboose on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad enroute to Chillicothe, Illinois

Conductor George E. Burton heats some coffee on the stove in the caboo...

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Clovis, New Mexico. Compartment in a new Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad caboose containing a jack and other tools for making flight running repairs

Clovis, New Mexico. Compartment in a new Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe...

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Waynoka, Oklahoma. Brakeman Jack Torbet, sitting at the window of the caboose pulling out of Waynoka, Oklahoma on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad

Waynoka, Oklahoma. Brakeman Jack Torbet, sitting at the window of the ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. Rear brakeman hanging out signal lamps on the caboose before a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad train pulls out

Chicago, Illinois. Rear brakeman hanging out signal lamps on the caboo...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A yellow caboose at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

A yellow caboose at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort comple...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Caboose on the caboose track at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Caboose on the caboose track at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. Conductor hopping aboard the caboose of a southbound freight at an Illinois Central Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Conductor hopping aboard the caboose of a southboun...

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Vaughn, New Mexico. Conductor's chair in a caboose on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Glass rollers on the legs are old insulators from telephone lines

Vaughn, New Mexico. Conductor's chair in a caboose on the Atchison, To...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Brakeman H.B. Van Santford riding on top of the caboose as the train on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad goes down from Summit to San Bernardino, California. The swing and head brakeman also ride on top of the cars for the entire distance

Brakeman H.B. Van Santford riding on top of the caboose as the train o...

Public domain photograph - California, United States, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A pantry in the caboose of a train on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Chicago and Chillicothe, Illinois

A pantry in the caboose of a train on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa ...

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Belen, New Mexico. A brakeman on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad C.G. Kirkland getting off the caboose

Belen, New Mexico. A brakeman on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rai...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. Conductor handling engineer copy of train orders before a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad freight train pulls out for Clinton, Iowa. Since the track between those points is under automatic train control, the engineer, in turn, hands the conductor the key to the automatic train control lock of the engine. The conductor will keep the key in the caboose until the train arrives at its destination

Chicago, Illinois. Conductor handling engineer copy of train orders be...

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Freight trains operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa. Clutching his bills, Conductor Wolfsmith hops off the caboose as the train passes the yard office on its way into the receiving yard

Freight trains operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad bet...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rear brakeman gets on the caboose and signals engineer that all's well at the rear end of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad freight train

Rear brakeman gets on the caboose and signals engineer that all's well...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Belen, New Mexico. A brakeman on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad C.G. Kirkland getting off the caboose

Belen, New Mexico. A brakeman on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rai...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Madison, Iowa. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad conductor R. Byers and brakeman M.H. Burdette of Chillicothe, Illinois, spend the night in a caboose after a day's run

Fort Madison, Iowa. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad conductor R...

Public domain photograph of America during the Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barstow, California. A brakeman on the Atchison, Topkea and Santa Fe Railroad resting in his caboose at night

Barstow, California. A brakeman on the Atchison, Topkea and Santa Fe R...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in w...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Caboose of the Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge railway. Telluride, Colorado

Caboose of the Rio Grande Southern narrow gauge railway. Telluride, Co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conductor James M. Johnson and brakeman Jack Torbet of Waynoka, Oklahoma having lunch in the caboose on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Waynoka, Oklahoma and Canadian, Texas

Conductor James M. Johnson and brakeman Jack Torbet of Waynoka, Oklaho...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Vaughn, New Mexico. Conductor's chair in a caboose on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Glass rollers on the legs are old, insulators from the telephone lines

Vaughn, New Mexico. Conductor's chair in a caboose on the Atchison, To...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa. Riding in the caboose can sometimes, on fairly long, fast runs, be very lonely with nothing to do but watch the landscape. The crew of a way-freight making deliveries and pick-ups all the time is kept constantly busy switching cars. Runs such as the one to Clinton are much sought after, and only go to men with the high seniority ratings

Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad betw...

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Conductor working on his records in the caboose enroute to Canadian, Texas

Conductor working on his records in the caboose enroute to Canadian, T...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Madison, Iowa. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad conductor R. Byers of Chillicothe, Illinois, preparing to spend the night in a caboose at the end of a day's run

Fort Madison, Iowa. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad conductor R...

Public domain photograph of working people, Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A caboose rolling down the hump to join its train in a classification yard of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad

A caboose rolling down the hump to join its train in a classification ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Calumet City, Illinois. Conductor waiting beside his caboose in the yards of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad

Calumet City, Illinois. Conductor waiting beside his caboose in the ya...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa. Every time a train is passed, the rear brakeman of each train steps out on the caboose platform, and if all is well, as in this case, gives the other brakeman the high sign

Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad betw...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in w...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

C & NW RR, putting the finishing touches on a rebuilt caboose at the rip tracks at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

C & NW RR, putting the finishing touches on a rebuilt caboose at the r...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train, railroad, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa. After a short wait to let a passenger train go by, the train starts up again and the rear brakeman gives his OK signal as he hops on the caboose

Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad betw...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. After the delivery to the Erie railroad, the crew heads back. The caboose will now be going in the opposite direction so rear brakeman Zerkel changes the signal lights to the other end

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Clovis, New Mexico. Coal bucket and bin of a new caboose on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad

Clovis, New Mexico. Coal bucket and bin of a new caboose on the Atchis...

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Rear brakeman George Clark having his lunch in the cupola of the caboose on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, between Marceline, Missouri and Argentine, Kansas. The bottle contains hot coffee

Rear brakeman George Clark having his lunch in the cupola of the caboo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A vintage locomotive plow at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

A vintage locomotive plow at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and reso...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

An extremely old train car at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

An extremely old train car at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and res...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad coach. Dunsmuir, California

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in w...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

A vintage locomotive plow and water tower at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

A vintage locomotive plow and water tower at Rail Road Park, an unusua...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A vintage locomotive plow at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

A vintage locomotive plow at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and reso...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in w...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

An extremely old train car at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

An extremely old train car at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and res...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

General view of part of the South Water street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill. A C and O R.R. caboose. the C and O is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R

General view of part of the South Water street freight depot of the Il...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. Freight conductor boarding the caboose of a train bound for the west coast out of Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Freight conductor boarding the caboose of a train b...

Public domain photograph of train car, engine, locomotive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa. Every time a train is passed, the rear brakeman of each train steps out on the caboose platform, and if all is well, as in this case, gives the other brakeman the high sign

Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad betw...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad between Chicago, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. The crew starts out light, just the engine and caboose and soon leave the yard behind them

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad between Chicago...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. Caboose at the South Water Street freight terminal

Chicago, Illinois. Caboose at the South Water Street freight terminal

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. The conductor uses hand brakes on the caboose to stop it as it coasts down a siding

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in w...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in w...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

General view of part of the south Water street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill. A C and O R.R. caboose. the C and O is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R

General view of part of the south Water street freight depot of the Il...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a train car, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a train car, West Virginia. Farm Security A...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wellington, Kansas. An oil refinery seen through the windows of the cupola of the caboose on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Emporia and Wellington, Kansas

Wellington, Kansas. An oil refinery seen through the windows of the cu...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Kansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A caboose rolling down the hump to join its train in a classification yard of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad

A caboose rolling down the hump to join its train in a classification ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Brakeman Jack W. Torbet of Waynoka, Oklahoma washing dishes after having had lunch in the caboose on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad enroute to Canadian, Texas between Waynoka, Oklahoma and Canadian, Texas

Brakeman Jack W. Torbet of Waynoka, Oklahoma washing dishes after havi...

Public domain photograph of kitchen, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Clovis, New Mexico. Interior of a new caboose on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad

Clovis, New Mexico. Interior of a new caboose on the Atchison, Topeka ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in w...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Steam locomotive, water tower, and siding at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad coach. Dunsmuir, California

Steam locomotive, water tower, and siding at Rail Road Park, an unusua...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Caboose and Loose Caboose Gift Shop, Route 93, Whitefish, Montana

Caboose and Loose Caboose Gift Shop, Route 93, Whitefish, Montana

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Gift shops and trading posts; roadside attractions. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). Credit line... More

Caboose on the caboose track at C & NW RR's i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill

Caboose on the caboose track at C & NW RR's i.e. Chicago and North Wes...

12002-1. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Addi... More

Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa. The last two cars of the train carry very wide metal structures bound for the west coast. To see past them, the conductor sometimes needs to get out on the caboose platform

Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad betw...

Public domain photograph of train car, engine, locomotive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa. The caboose is the conductor's second home. He always uses the same one and many conductors cook and sleep there while waiting for trains to take back from division points

Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad betw...

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Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. All during a detour over territory not belonging to this road, caused by a derailment at Calumet City, brakeman Lee High stays atop the caboose to be ready to signal the engineer

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

C & NW RR, putting the finishing touches on a rebuilt caboose at the rip tracks at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

C & NW RR, putting the finishing touches on a rebuilt caboose at the r...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. The train arrives at the yard and the brakeman Zerkel stays with the last car of the train as the caboose is cut off

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago...

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As darkness falls, the brakeman hangs out the markers on the caboose on the route to Fort Madison, Iowa

As darkness falls, the brakeman hangs out the markers on the caboose o...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Marceline, Missouri. Brakeman in the cupola of his caboose in the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad yard

Marceline, Missouri. Brakeman in the cupola of his caboose in the Atch...

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Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad between Chicago and Northwestern Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa. The caboose is the conductor's second home. He always uses the same one and many conductors cook and sleep there while waiting for trains to take back from division points

Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad betw...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Caboose and Loose Caboose Gift Shop, Loose Caboose detail, Route 93, Whitefish, Montana

Caboose and Loose Caboose Gift Shop, Loose Caboose detail, Route 93, W...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Gift shops and trading posts; roadside attractions. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). Credit line... More

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. The train goes off to the icehouse as the caboose is cut off and goes down a siding to the yard office

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Barstow, California. Conductor, David L. Webb sleeping in his caboose. He works on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad out of San Bernardino, California

Barstow, California. Conductor, David L. Webb sleeping in his caboose....

Public domain photograph - California, United States, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Freight train operaions on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa. Conductor Wolfsmith washing up in the caboose as the train nears Clinton

Freight train operaions on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad betwe...

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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe brakeman Jack W. Torbet, left, and conductor James M. Johnson having lunch in the caboose enroute to Canadian, Texas

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe brakeman Jack W. Torbet, left, and condu...

Public domain photograph of working people, Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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