Several train cabooses have been moved to the resort, set on rail tracks and equipped with bathrooms, heat, and beds. |
This shop was later shut down with the end of the use of cabooses on most freight trains. |
In more recent years pooled cabooses for mainline trains meant only assigned local and branchline train crews kept their own van. |
Pooled cabooses stayed with a train to final destination and the crew slept in a bunkhouse like the engine crews had always done. |
Steam locomotives gave way to diesels, and cabooses were replaced by little boxes. |
Cabooses are another fast disappearing symbol of the railways, those that remain are a gaunt remnant of the former glory of a bygone era. |