Portal:Trains/Featured picture/Week 47, 2006

BN caboose

A Burlington Northern Railroad caboose on a train entering Eola Yard, Aurora, Illinois, in 1993.

A caboose (US railway terminology) or brake van or guard's van (British terminology) is a manned rail transport vehicle coupled at the end of a freight train. Although cabooses were once used on nearly every freight train in North America, their use has declined and they are seldom seen on trains, except on locals and smaller railroads.

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