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Viewing Album:  Cabooses
 
By:Tom Beckett
Dates:1/1/1977 - 5/19/2011
Album Info:Buggies, hacks, crummies, cabins, vans, whatever you want to call them. Some in service, some stuffed and mounted.
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Hold out
Title:  Hold out
Description:  A C&O caboose brings up the rear of this CSX local. It will take a while before all the power is repainted. Bet this caboose never does.
Photo Date:  4/29/1987  Upload Date: 4/23/2015 1:22:23 AM
Location:  Elsmere, DE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  CSX 6553(GP40)
Views:  388   Comments: 1
D&H car
Title:  D&H car
Description:  This D&H caboose was on SU 2 at Afton. A southbound would soon pick up SU 2s train, and the van would be mid train.
Photo Date:  5/14/1987  Upload Date: 4/27/2015 3:38:49 AM
Location:  Afton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Signal,Action
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Views:  376   Comments: 0
Home again
Title:  Home again
Description:  An ex Pennsy N5C cabin is on the tail of SEENs 117 cars as it rolls into Enola.
Photo Date:  5/18/1987  Upload Date: 4/25/2015 3:21:42 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  176   Comments: 0
ENRO requirement
Title:  ENRO requirement
Description:  This NW car was trailing ENRO, a run through train to Roanoke on NS. Virginia still required cabooses at the time, so this train always had one, usually an NW car.
Photo Date:  5/18/1987  Upload Date: 4/25/2015 3:28:14 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  124   Comments: 0
NW car
Title:  NW car
Description:  This NW caboose was coming into Enola on ROEN from NS-Roanoke.
Photo Date:  5/18/1987  Upload Date: 4/25/2015 3:31:25 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  130   Comments: 0
Pair of SOOs
Title:  Pair of SOOs
Description:  You never knew what you might find on a transfer run in the Chicago area. These two SOO vans were on the rear of a transfer on the IHB that was led by a couple of Chessie units. Go figure
Photo Date:  6/21/1987  Upload Date: 5/6/2015 4:41:11 AM
Location:  La Grange Park, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  228   Comments: 0
Rolling out eastbound
Title:  Rolling out eastbound
Description:  This ex IC car is trailing 26 cars of grain going east from Waterloo on Chicago Central. The overhead bridge is a former CGW line to Oelwein.
Photo Date:  6/22/1987  Upload Date: 5/7/2015 4:33:03 AM
Location:  Waterloo, IA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Action
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Views:  339   Comments: 0
Bobbing along
Title:  Bobbing along
Description:  Cabooses were still fairly common in the late 80s, at least on locals. This train was a É car local rolling west from Austin to Albert Lea, with this SOO car.
Photo Date:  6/22/1987  Upload Date: 5/7/2015 4:40:05 AM
Location:  Austin, MN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Action
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Views:  366   Comments: 0
Five aces
Title:  Five aces
Description:  This CNW caboose was trailing a Wisconsin bound coal train. Gotta love that number!!
Photo Date:  6/23/1987  Upload Date: 5/9/2015 3:40:59 AM
Location:  Shakopee, MN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  225   Comments: 0
Caboose and jennies
Title:  Caboose and jennies
Description:  An ore train rolls through Hoffman Av under Daytons Bluff with a BN pool caboose trailing. My approach was "get em while you can," since the caboose was an endangered species on class 1 roads by this time. Already they were almost completely gone from road freights in the east.
Photo Date:  6/24/1987  Upload Date: 5/11/2015 2:26:00 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Action
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Views:  141   Comments: 0
Going green
Title:  Going green
Description:  This eastbound BN train has a standard pool caboose on the rear, making for green up front and behind. It was too far away to get the number, as it is not in my notes. Still, good to see a caboose. There were a surprising number of them out on the road while I was in the upper midwest. I saw a half dozen this day in St Paul.
Photo Date:  6/24/1987  Upload Date: 5/9/2015 3:36:28 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Action
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Views:  68   Comments: 0
Dusty ride
Title:  Dusty ride
Description:  This bay window car was trailing an empty coal train bound for Wyoming. It must have been a dusty ride back there.
Photo Date:  6/24/1987  Upload Date: 5/11/2015 2:27:40 AM
Location:  Mankato, MN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  177   Comments: 0
Behind the autos
Title:  Behind the autos
Description:  This bay window caboose was trailing a solid auto rack train. Every train I saw on the CNW that day had a caboose.
Photo Date:  6/24/1987  Upload Date: 5/11/2015 2:32:13 AM
Location:  Mankato, MN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  140   Comments: 1
Home built
Title:  Home built
Description:  The Milwaukee Road built a lot of their own rolling stock, including some cabooses. One of them is at Winona, now part of the SOO. It appears to be in MOW service. Look at those trucks!!
Photo Date:  6/24/1987  Upload Date: 5/11/2015 2:34:02 AM
Location:  Winona, MN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  764   Comments: 1
Westbound too
Title:  Westbound too
Description:  This 88 car westbound seen from Indian Mounds Park also had a caboose-it's occupied, too-proving that the eastbounds didnt grab up all the buggies.
Photo Date:  6/24/1987  Upload Date: 5/9/2015 3:50:07 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Action
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Views:  106   Comments: 0
Mid train car
Title:  Mid train car
Description:  This SOO caboose was mid train at the end of a cut of grain hoppers. There were another 30 or so cars of merchandise trailing, and another caboose too.
Photo Date:  6/24/1987  Upload Date: 5/9/2015 3:43:29 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Action
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Views:  227   Comments: 0
Finally
Title:  Finally
Description:  The end of the mixed grain and merchandise train arrives, and it too, has a caboose, which appears to be occupied. SOO was getting their moneys worth out of them that day.
Photo Date:  6/24/1987  Upload Date: 5/9/2015 3:44:56 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Action
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Views:  152   Comments: 0
Cab hop
Title:  Cab hop
Description:  BN was not shy about running freight in with its commuter rush, even a lowly local. This one is returning from Eola caboose light at the tail end of the evening rush.
Photo Date:  6/25/1987  Upload Date: 5/13/2015 4:29:39 AM
Location:  La Grange, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Action
Locomotives:  BN 2706(GP39-2)
Views:  339   Comments: 0
Past the station
Title:  Past the station
Description:  A B&O caboose trails this eastbound at the former B&O station.
Photo Date:  6/26/1987  Upload Date: 5/15/2015 3:34:43 AM
Location:  Fostoria, OH
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Action
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Views:  132   Comments: 0
Strasburg caboose
Title:  Strasburg caboose
Description:  This Southern car was trailing the Strasburg Local at Front Royal. Cabooses were typical on locals at this time, though Virginia required them on all trains.
Photo Date:  7/25/1987  Upload Date: 5/18/2015 2:41:13 AM
Location:  Front Royal, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  109   Comments: 0
Main line van
Title:  Main line van
Description:  Virginia required cabooses on trains, so every train in the state had one. The railroads were not so keen on this, now that EOT technology had become cost effective and practical. The fans liked it, as we got to see this vestige of another era for a while longer. This train on the Southern main arriving at Pot Yard had this Southern car trailing. Look at the gons full of phone poles. Classic southern load.
Photo Date:  7/25/1987  Upload Date: 5/18/2015 2:44:17 AM
Location:  Front Royal, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Action
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Views:  98   Comments: 0
C&O on the RF&P
Title:  C&O on the RF&P
Description:  An omen of things to come for the RF&P, a Chessie caboose rolls south on the rear of a train bound for Richmond. In a few years, the Commonwealth of Virginia will sell its stake in the railroad, and CSX will take it over. How about that ACL box, 20 years after it went into SCL??
Photo Date:  7/26/1987  Upload Date: 5/23/2015 2:29:14 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  139   Comments: 0
C&O caboose on the RF&P
Title:  C&O caboose on the RF&P
Description:  This Chessie van was headed south on an RF&P train to Richmond.
Photo Date:  7/26/1987  Upload Date: 5/21/2015 3:15:08 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  87   Comments: 0
RF&P car
Title:  RF&P car
Description:  This caboose was tucked in behind the power on a local headed toward Pot Yard.
Photo Date:  7/26/1987  Upload Date: 5/21/2015 3:40:32 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  RFP 123(GP40)
Views:  416   Comments: 0
Virginia is for caboose lovers
Title:  Virginia is for caboose lovers
Description:  Virginia still had a caboose law in the 1980s, and every train had one. This Seaboard car was on a southbound RF&P train.
Photo Date:  7/26/1987  Upload Date: 5/25/2015 1:24:23 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  78   Comments: 0
Connection caboose
Title:  Connection caboose
Description:  This Seaboard System car was southbound to Richmond, and will get on its own rails there. CSX now surrounded the RF&P, and cabooses from all the component roads ran over it from one side to the other. And a Clinchfield box car!!!
Photo Date:  7/26/1987  Upload Date: 5/23/2015 2:42:54 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  108   Comments: 0
Gone to Pot
Title:  Gone to Pot
Description:  Pot-or Potomac-Yard, a large facility shared by B&O, C&O, Conrail, RF&P, and NS as a tenant. This Southern car trails a northbound through AF.
Photo Date:  7/26/1987  Upload Date: 5/21/2015 3:48:01 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  321   Comments: 0
Double shot
Title:  Double shot
Description:  A southbound NS train rolls through AF with a pair of cabooses. If one is good, two is better!!
Photo Date:  7/26/1987  Upload Date: 5/21/2015 3:50:51 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  235   Comments: 1
Short car
Title:  Short car
Description:  LIRR had a group of these short cabooses, almost as small as an ore jenny-a box on wheels. This one is tucked in behind the power on an RF Extra passing Bellerose.
Photo Date:  8/9/1987  Upload Date: 5/23/2015 2:39:53 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420)
Views:  172   Comments: 0
Any ideas??
Title:  Any ideas??
Description:  This possibly B&O caboose was parked at a restaurant in New Jersey. Im guessing somewhere in the Little Ferry/Ridgtefield Park area. I have no information on it, so dont know if its even a real B&O caboose, or something else, but the restaurant owner liked the B&O, so painted it that way.
Photo Date:  8/22/1987  Upload Date: 5/23/2015 2:48:39 AM
Location:  Little Ferry, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  69   Comments: 0
TTX caboose
Title:  TTX caboose
Description:  Besides the railroads, a number of other operations had cabooses for various"purposes. Amont them was Trailer Train, which assigned this one to Conrails TV 301, seen at Hancock NY. Usually this meant someone from the company was riding the train for any of a number of purposes, either as an escort for a load, or to observe, among other things.
Photo Date:  9/26/1987  Upload Date: 5/27/2015 3:49:29 AM
Location:  Hancock, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  1001   Comments: 0
Wagon top
Title:  Wagon top
Description:  This ex B&O wagon top caboose was a hand me down to the Rochester & Southern, which hastily renumbered with a can of spray paint. Still, at this point in history, it was good to see such a car still in service.
Photo Date:  10/11/1987  Upload Date: 6/9/2015 2:58:47 AM
Location:  Rochester, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  RSR 107(SW1200)
Views:  577   Comments: 0
In the new station
Title:  In the new station
Description:  RF 62 with one of LIRR's bay window cabooses rolls through the new Ronkonkoma station on the first day of electrified service.
Photo Date:  1/18/1988  Upload Date: 6/22/2015 4:16:12 AM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Action
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Views:  370   Comments: 0
Doubling up
Title:  Doubling up
Description:  A pair of cabooses rest at Pinelawn for the next days work.
Photo Date:  1/23/1988  Upload Date: 6/22/2015 4:09:56 AM
Location:  Pinelawn, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  160   Comments: 0
Well, its easy to see
Title:  Well, its easy to see
Description:  This D&H caboose was repainted by Guilford into this sort of orange color, a departure from the red and some former EL painted cabooses that had been standard for many years. We see it bringing up the rear of a Taylor Turn on its return to Binghamton, here crossing Terrace Dr at the south end of the yard.
Photo Date:  3/5/1988  Upload Date: 6/30/2015 5:11:59 AM
Location:  Conklin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Action
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Views:  230   Comments: 0
Short car
Title:  Short car
Description:  LIRR had some of these small cabooses that youd think would be used primarily on peddler freights and short trips on the west end, with the bay window cars going "on the road" as it were, but all of them were used systemwide. This short car is trailing RF 7 at Fresh Pond a job it i well suited for.
Photo Date:  4/21/1988  Upload Date: 7/8/2015 4:31:48 AM
Location:  Fresh Pond, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Action
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Views:  125   Comments: 0
Ex PC car
Title:  Ex PC car
Description:  This ex PC bay window car was not quite at the end of the train coming into Enola on ALEN. There was a block of auto frames and empty racks behind. Still good to see a caboose at this time.
Photo Date:  4/22/1988  Upload Date: 7/10/2015 3:26:12 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  146   Comments: 0
Pan shot
Title:  Pan shot
Description:  This C&O caboose was trailing 100 cars of coal along the James River.
Photo Date:  4/23/1988  Upload Date: 7/12/2015 3:18:53 AM
Location:  Big Island, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Action
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Views:  91   Comments: 0
Drinking up the juice
Title:  Drinking up the juice
Description:  The OJT has this B&O car bringing up the rear as it passes AF en route to Jersey.
Photo Date:  4/30/1988  Upload Date: 7/8/2015 1:16:48 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  232   Comments: 0
C&O on the RF&P
Title:  C&O on the RF&P
Description:  Not only did power run through on the RF&P, so did cabooses. In fact, I probably saw more off line buggies than RF&P cars. This C&O car is trailing train 171 at AF
Photo Date:  4/30/1988  Upload Date: 7/8/2015 1:11:34 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  100   Comments: 0
Patched
Title:  Patched
Description:  This is looking like an ex L&N car, but with all L&N markings painted out. Its now on its second post L&N owner, so not much of a surprise. What is something of a surprise is its position in the train, about mid way back.
Photo Date:  4/30/1988  Upload Date: 7/8/2015 1:14:13 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  131   Comments: 0
Southern car in the late day sun
Title:  Southern car in the late day sun
Description:  This Southern caboose was bringing up the rear on train 355, a reliable late afternoon run, at Manassas.
Photo Date:  4/30/1988  Upload Date: 7/5/2015 3:15:15 AM
Location:  Manassas, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  247   Comments: 0
B&O bay window
Title:  B&O bay window
Description:  This B&O car was trailing train 461 at North Collier.
Photo Date:  5/14/1988  Upload Date: 7/15/2015 2:37:21 AM
Location:  Collier Yard, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  112   Comments: 0
Cupola car
Title:  Cupola car
Description:  This C&O cupola caboose trails train 172 at N Collier.
Photo Date:  5/14/1988  Upload Date: 7/15/2015 2:32:24 AM
Location:  Collier Yard, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  130   Comments: 0
C&O bay window
Title:  C&O bay window
Description:  Chessie cabooses were common this day, both B&O and C&O being represented, such as this C&O car going north on train 300
Photo Date:  5/14/1988  Upload Date: 7/15/2015 2:50:15 AM
Location:  Collier Yard, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  118   Comments: 1
Hopewell Turn buggy
Title:  Hopewell Turn buggy
Description:  The rear of the Hopewell Turn has a standard NW caboose, still in red, trailing its 97 cars.
Photo Date:  5/14/1988  Upload Date: 7/15/2015 2:53:21 AM
Location:  Petersburg, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Action
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Views:  184   Comments: 0
COFC van
Title:  COFC van
Description:  The eastbound COFC train I caught at Petersburg had this car bringing up the rear.
Photo Date:  5/14/1988  Upload Date: 7/16/2015 1:27:44 AM
Location:  Petersburg, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  84   Comments: 0
Side view
Title:  Side view
Description:  This car was trailing an eastbound coal train, seen in a side view from adjacent US 460.
Photo Date:  5/14/1988  Upload Date: 7/15/2015 2:55:43 AM
Location:  Wilson, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  165   Comments: 0
Bay window
Title:  Bay window
Description:  I didnt see a lot of NW bay window cars, so it was a pleasant surprise to see this one trailing an eastbound coal train.
Photo Date:  5/14/1988  Upload Date: 7/15/2015 2:57:46 AM
Location:  Petersburg, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  198   Comments: 0
Seaboard too
Title:  Seaboard too
Description:  Most of the cabooses I saw that day were Chessie cars. Occasionally a Seaboard car would show, such as this former L&N one trailing train OBSN
Photo Date:  5/14/1988  Upload Date: 7/15/2015 3:03:52 AM
Location:  Collier Yard, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  197   Comments: 1

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