@@CharlesHuse Yes I remember seeing lots of them come into the old Reading railroad yard in Rutherford PA. The road was close to that terminal. When they stopped using them there were hundreds of them parked in that rail yard. Now everything is gone and they have a big intermodal yard there now
ah yeah, I remember our old home place had tracks over the road to get to it. nigh time seeing a random dude taking a leak from the back deck was always a good laugh
My father worked on the rip track at EJ&E from the mid-1950s through 1971. They received damaged rolling stock along with cars just requiring maintenance, and set them back to right. They were concerned about the school systems in Joliet so we moved back to Iowa in time for me to start kindergarten, and he moved to the Rock Island Line, which was later acquired by Chicago Northwestern. The one and only time I ever saw EJ&E cars anywhere was on the Union Pacific line in Omaha in the spring of 2007. I was so excited I had the number for home halfway dialed before I remember he'd been dead for five years. It's nice to see this old caboose in good repair.
@@Gfysimpletons I knew the middle name of every single person I graduated with - all 30 of them. My brother was three years behind me, his class was on 22. A very different world ...
As late as 2015 we still had a caboose in service for the "214" shift at the BNSF 28th St. Terminal in Superior, WI. Reason being, that shift spotted cars at an industry that required an extended distance shove (backup movement) to get back out, and it provided a safe and comfortable platform for one of the crew members to ride and protect the shove, instead of having to hang off of the tail end car for several miles. It still wore the old Burlington Northern green/white paint scheme with original BN logos and carried the "BN12650" identifier. Most of the functional pieces had long been removed - stove, water tanks, bunks, etc. were no longer present but it did still have the seats in the cupola as well as the fold-down desk in one end with the old telephone style radio receiver. Oddly enough, we weren't permitted to ride in the cupola if we were protecting the shove, we were only allowed to look out the open rear door while standing INSIDE the house, even riding out on the platform was a no-go. We loved that old caboose though, during our shift break the whole crew would gather inside on folding chairs and share food that we'd all brought and plan what we'd be eating tomorrow lol - good memories in that old caboose. Not many modern railroaders working today can say they've ever even set foot in one, it's cool to have had that experience 🙂
That was a great story.Norfolk Southerns local H24 shifts for industries in and around the Hershey Pa. area. Including the chocolate factory. They use an old Conrail caboose. The conductor still uses the caboose whistle on it at crossings. I have a few videos on that local with caboose They use an old GP38-2 Operation Lifesaver as the leader 2nd unit I think is a GP38-2 also. I like seeing it in use Thanks for watching my channel.
We had a "Shove Platform" for a few jobs in St. Paul and Hastings, MN on the CP. When you would work some of the industries like 3M in Cottage Grove, MN you would need to do the same thing you described. We were permitted to be outside of the "shove platform" during movements during the time I was working those jobs.
One of my Dad’s friends did exactly that. Have fond memories of sitting on the upper deck looking out over the valley he’d sited it on. Long gone now unfortunately.
@@gregintokyo3706 That was cool. Yes they are a piece of history now. Some still are used for shifting purposes. Local at Hershey PA. uses a caboose to help shift with so the conductor doesn't have to hang on to the side of a car for miles. This is an old Conrail caboose.
@@thelastjohnwayne Yes to bad they aren't around. But you can still see them being used. Hershey PA. Local uses a Conrail Caboose for shifting cars. Thanks for watching my channel
Nice tour. My grandfather worked for the B&O railroad from the 1930’s to the 60’s. Stationed at the Benwood Yards south of Wheeling WV. I believe he was a brakeman and spent his days in a caboose. He was the best checkers player I ever knew. I got to ride briefly in a caboose at Spencer Shops, the transportation museum in Spencer, NC. Really cool experience.
That was great you got to ride in one. The railroad that owns this caboose just had an excursion with this caboose and a Central of New Jersey caboose. Thanks for watching my channel.
I remember the good old cabooses. I worked for The Southern Pacific and then the Union Pacific. Best route was going over the Sierras in the winter time.
@@James_Knott Thats cool. Norfolk Southern uses one at Hershey Pa. Old Conrail caboose I just posted a video a few hours ago of them backing in a spur track and finishing for the day.Thanks for watching my channel
Very nice. My Stepdad and his dad worked on and ran steam trains growing up in the railroad. They also helped with the original Snoqualmie Train museum by working on them and running them on a short line of track. We got to ride in every car there during that time up to about early 70's. I always like riding in the caboose, and they were still original at that time. Fun times.
@@timmyers1006 Wow that was great you were able to do that. Yes my grandfather started working on the Philadelphia & Reading Ry.in 1914 he put 50 years with that company it became the Reading sometime in the 1920s. He always told me that when the railroads went to diesel power that wasn't railroading any more.Thanks for watching.
I’ve have ridden on many cabooses they look just like that one! In my early career when cabooses were still part of the railroad, the responsibility for the speed of the train was a joint responsibility between the engineer and the conductor. Some caboose had speedometers on them, but it was very limited, and the accuracy of a speedometer was always in question.. at that time we still had telephone poles along the right of way and on those telephone poles were markings generally a silver metal band indicating for every 10 poles 1/4 of a mile. So during the daylight hours a stopwatch once 40 poles passed by you were covering a mile. by counting the time it took to cover that mile you could determine actual train speed from the caboose. If the train was traveling too fast, the conductor had the authority and was required to reduce train speed by using that brake handle shown in this video.. the secondary use of that break handle was to place the train an emergency in the event of some sort of malfunction for those who wanted to know there’s some additional information for you.
Thanks for the information I didn't know that. I retired from the rail mill in Steelton Pa. They are still rolling rail there.Thanks for watching my channel.
I worked for the BNRR in the 80’s. I was a clerk and would dead head to different stations as needed I would sometimes ride in the engine but usually in the way car It was the best part of my job getting picked up or dropped off along the routes
Cool I never rode in one.Sounds like an interesting job. I worked in The rail mill in Steelton Pa. You probably seen rails with Steelton embossed on the rails.Thanks for watching.
My dad started out as a brakeman for the Nickel Plate when he got home from Korea. He passed in 1976 at age 53 and had worked his way up to conductor. He ran Ft Wayne IN to Bellevue OH. At his funeral, one of his fellow railroaders said my dad would setoff firecrackers in that metal caboose.
Wow lol.I'll bet that was loud. Sounds like what my grandfather told me. He was a car inspector for the Reading RR. He inspected the cars for Hershey Chocolate Corp. Some guys would throw them in the box cars. Norfolk Southern uses an old Conrail caboose to shift cars now for Hershey. I have some videos on my channel with that caboose. Thanks for watching.
Having spent a night trying to sleep on one of those benches, to call them a "bunk" is a real stretch! Back in the mid 70s, when I was a telecommunications tech, with Canadian National, working in Northern Ontario, I frequently rode freights. There was one night, when I got on the train around midnight, in Foleyet Ontario, and got back to Capreol at 7 AM. I tried sleeping on a bench, but was occasionally tossed off by the motion. Normally though, if I was riding in the caboose, I'd be up in the cupola. Otherwise, I'd be in the middle seat in the lead engine.
Great video. Thanks again for filming 🎥 at the M&H. Ryan knows his stuff, and he will teach you a lot.That is the best caboose we have at the M&H. The CNJ needs love she had a tough life. The caboose with the round portle windows, which is in red premier on track 4, needs love to put her in service. Great video.
@@samuelbistline4973 Thank you. Yes he is good at explaining things there on the M&H. Got the 151 shifting today also. They sure did have a lot of shifting to do today. I was surprised for a Saturday.
Really cool video of American histo 3:35 ry. I remember back in the 60s, my grandpa was a engineer for the southern railway. He and those railroad men wore those blue striped hats.
@@GuyjKite Yes the 60s I rember well. My grandfather worked for the Reading. He started as a call boy in 1914. He was 15 then. Then worked at the Rutherford PA. Railroad Yard. Then around 1930 he went to Hershey and became a car inspector for Hershey Chocolate Co . He retired in 1965 with 50 years service .Thanks for watching my video.
@@spankyharland9845 in my home town, ( Eagle, Michigan) our city park purchased and refurbished a caboose for display. The toilet room was just a bit bigger than a porta-potty. It was more like an RV bathroom. Just big enough to sit down, and turn around in. Toilet had a handle that you pulled down, and everything dropped from the toilet into the holding tank under the caboose. Once you did your business, you turned to the side, and there was a very small sink with a small mirror. Room was probably 4 foot wide, 4 foot deep, and 6 foot tall... For obvious reasons, the park officials put padlocks on the door so people wouldn't actually use it..... Hope that paints a better picture for you..
@@DanPlusWater I lived in China back in the 1990's and the train toilets were terrible. Poop and pee all over the floors. Of course the door was locked when in the station because the poop and pee just went right out on the tracks.
Halfway across the continent and there is an EJ&E caboose and I must say it's in very nice condition. These larger ones were not as common on their property because they had such short hauls. When my dad would take me on his sales trips on summer vacation I'd always see one of these at Waukegan IL. That was the north end of their system and the traffic density was not as strong there. So all you'd see was a switcher or two plus a road unit and this style Caboose when they were on their layover. Shortly after the Canadian National took over I have never seen a railroad wiped out so quickly as the Rolling Stock all got remarked GRY for Gary Railway. A nice reminder of days gone by
Great story. Thanks for sharing that story. This Railroad the M&H has an excursion they make quite regular with this caboose and a caboose from the Central of New Jersey railroad. They pull the two cabooses with an old General Electric 65 ton Center Cab. In fact they are running that tomorrow.
My great grandpa, my grandpa, and my dad all worked for the MKT Railroad...of course my dad was a switchman breakman and yardmaster until he took an engineer job when we moved out to East Texas. (MKT was bought out from Union Pacific around the late 80s.)
@@scoggins07 You sure did have a family of railroad workers Cool. Just my grandfather from my family worked on the railroad. He told me many stories of working on the Reading.
The emergency brake valve is not used to communicate with the head end. The conductor is responsible for the train and has access to the brake valve in case of an emergency to stop the train.
My late father-in-law retired shortly before his death from the E,J&E in 1975. He started as a fireman in 1939 and kept that position until retirement. I doubt that the sleeping accommodations were used since the farthest west the RR went was Joliet and Elgin and east to the steel mills in Northwest Indiana, he was home every night.
I know a lady who spent her summers Living in a Caboose. I wish I knew more of her story, and had asked her more questions, but here is what I recall her telling me: Her father was a railroad conductor for the New York, Ontario and Western Railway. He had a caboose that was assigned to him, as was standard practice by most all railroads. Being a family man, he took most of the summer off for holiday. His entire family would load up the caboose with whatever they needed for their summer vacation and the railroad would then take the caboose to where they wanted to go and they would park on some out-of-the-way trackage or siding. I assume they were limited to locations controlled by the home railroad, but perhaps not if another railroad was willing to take the caboose onto their tracks. Sadly, I do NOT know where they spent their summers. While the kids of the family had fun swimming and fishing and playing, mom and dad spent time repairing, refurbishing, and repainting the caboose to restore it back to tip-top shape. I suppose it was part of the deal with the railroad that made it beneficial for the family and the railroad. What great fun it must have been to have a private caboose to live and sleep in every summer, and to travel there and back by rail.
I cannot recall the name of the little town on southeast Iowa, that lay along the Des Moines River. But there was a smallhouse with rooms for rent, as well as a caboose that you could rent out. It was booked full for some time, so it was something that I thought that I would try to book later. That was probably ten years ago, and I had forgotten all about it. I guess that I need to research and give it a tey once again.
@@ronfullerton3162 That is cool. There is a place near Strasburg Pa. That has a grouping of them they rent out to stay in. I can't recall the name.It may be called the red caboose. This is located in Lancaster County Pa.Strasburg is a popular place you can ride steam locomotives excursion rides They have Thomas the steam locomotive there witch is a real steam locomotive that pulls excursion cars.
@@BeeLineEast That does sound grand. Can stay in a caboose, and ride a steam powered train also! Was out to Virginia City, Nevada and rode their track and was privileged enough to see their locomotives. The old steamers are just too cool.
One caboose story I was told, the plumbing had frozen in the winter. So someone went under the caboose with a torch to try and thaw it out. Suddenly there was a loud bang, as the grey water tank proceeded to let go it's now pressurized contents all over the inside of the caboose. Boss came to see what had happened, told them to hook it up to a train going to Winnipeg and pretend they never saw it.
@@arthurbrumagem3844 This Railroad does have one that was built in 1941. Central New Jersey. But the wood is painted over. Thanks for watching. I did a tour of that one also on my channel
@@arthurbrumagem3844 Cool They sure did go all at one time. I remember when the old Reading Railroad yard in Rutherford Pa. was full of them sitting everywhere.
@BeeLineEast There's a restored caboose - for overnight rent! - at a ghost town musem, at Goffs, on old Route 66 some 20 miles west of Needles, California. BNSF has 3 mainlines there, with sidings, and trains run on about 15 to 20 minutes apart. Awesome depots at Needles, Kelso (UP), and Barstow are worth visits, nearby.
@@jerroldkazynski5480 That's cool. I have never been out west. Maybe some day.There is a place near the Strasburg RR in Lancaster county Pa. That has multiple cabooses you can stay overnight in or a few nights or longer . Not sure how many they have.I know my son in law went to see his sister this past spring she lives in Arizona. He was telling me how long some of the trains were there. He said they were very long.
I bet my brother and grandpa rode on the caboose at one point or another. They both retired from the J Kirk yard Gary IN. After the CN take over, they forced my brother into retirement in 2012. They treated the J employees pretty bed after the take over.
That is cool that they did. That's to bad about your brother. Now that caboose resides in Middletown Pa. They just used it the other week for their ice cream excursion.
@@TheFinnMcGovern Mile Post detectors i believe. They are made to pickup defects in railroad cars Some places they still use cabooses when the shift railroad cars for industries if the conductor has to go quite a ways instead of him hanging on a car. Don't quote me though I'm not a railroad expert but I think that's why they got rid of them. Thanks for watching
@@BeeLineEast That's what I've always called cabooses. I think I picked it up from a railroad man, but can't recall. I've known the expression a long time.
Kids today will never know the joys us older folks had growing up watching a train rolling thru town and waving at the guy in the caboose.
@@CharlesHuse Yes I remember seeing lots of them come into the old Reading railroad yard in Rutherford PA. The road was close to that terminal. When they stopped using them there were hundreds of them parked in that rail yard. Now everything is gone and they have a big intermodal yard there now
ah yeah, I remember our old home place had tracks over the road to get to it. nigh time seeing a random dude taking a leak from the back deck was always a good laugh
@@donaldabel1233 Haha lol
My father worked on the rip track at EJ&E from the mid-1950s through 1971. They received damaged rolling stock along with cars just requiring maintenance, and set them back to right. They were concerned about the school systems in Joliet so we moved back to Iowa in time for me to start kindergarten, and he moved to the Rock Island Line, which was later acquired by Chicago Northwestern. The one and only time I ever saw EJ&E cars anywhere was on the Union Pacific line in Omaha in the spring of 2007. I was so excited I had the number for home halfway dialed before I remember he'd been dead for five years. It's nice to see this old caboose in good repair.
@@nrauhauser Very cool story thanks for watching
Lucky man having proactive parents that saved you froM JPS. 👍🏻
@@Gfysimpletons I knew the middle name of every single person I graduated with - all 30 of them. My brother was three years behind me, his class was on 22. A very different world ...
@@HoolyDooly-si2zz I never heard thek called that name before. Thanks for watching.
@@HoolyDooly-si2zz Ok i see. I know in other country's there are different terms used. Thanks for sharing that info.
As late as 2015 we still had a caboose in service for the "214" shift at the BNSF 28th St. Terminal in Superior, WI. Reason being, that shift spotted cars at an industry that required an extended distance shove (backup movement) to get back out, and it provided a safe and comfortable platform for one of the crew members to ride and protect the shove, instead of having to hang off of the tail end car for several miles. It still wore the old Burlington Northern green/white paint scheme with original BN logos and carried the "BN12650" identifier. Most of the functional pieces had long been removed - stove, water tanks, bunks, etc. were no longer present but it did still have the seats in the cupola as well as the fold-down desk in one end with the old telephone style radio receiver. Oddly enough, we weren't permitted to ride in the cupola if we were protecting the shove, we were only allowed to look out the open rear door while standing INSIDE the house, even riding out on the platform was a no-go. We loved that old caboose though, during our shift break the whole crew would gather inside on folding chairs and share food that we'd all brought and plan what we'd be eating tomorrow lol - good memories in that old caboose. Not many modern railroaders working today can say they've ever even set foot in one, it's cool to have had that experience 🙂
That was a great story.Norfolk Southerns local H24 shifts for industries in and around the Hershey Pa. area. Including the chocolate factory. They use an old Conrail caboose. The conductor still uses the caboose whistle on it at crossings. I have a few videos on that local with caboose They use an old GP38-2 Operation Lifesaver as the leader 2nd unit I think is a GP38-2 also. I like seeing it in use Thanks for watching my channel.
We had a "Shove Platform" for a few jobs in St. Paul and Hastings, MN on the CP. When you would work some of the industries like 3M in Cottage Grove, MN you would need to do the same thing you described. We were permitted to be outside of the "shove platform" during movements during the time I was working those jobs.
@@deebo1103 Cool thanks for sharing that. And thanks for watching my channel.
Many a slack action injury settlement was one of the reasons they died. Tech can prit near run uncrewed trains.
Many a man has desired to have his own little caboose 'getaway' out in the country somewhere, they'd make an interesting little 'mini home'.
They are great for cabin in the country. Thanks for watching.
One of my Dad’s friends did exactly that. Have fond memories of sitting on the upper deck looking out over the valley he’d sited it on. Long gone now unfortunately.
@@gregintokyo3706 That was cool. Yes they are a piece of history now. Some still are used for shifting purposes. Local at Hershey PA. uses a caboose to help shift with so the conductor doesn't have to hang on to the side of a car for miles. This is an old Conrail caboose.
My friends dad converted an old passenger car into a hunting camp. It sleeps 4.
@@sroevukasroevuka That is cool. Thanks for watching.
I was glad to see that Sling Blade has a job as a cameraman/interviewer
Promo for the upcoming Beetlejuice sequel.
Now, that was funny "ha ha".
Ain't got no gas in it.
@@jifchosehismother I like the way you talk.😅
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I really miss Cabooses on every train. I understand why they did away them but I miss them.
@@thelastjohnwayne Yes to bad they aren't around. But you can still see them being used. Hershey PA. Local uses a Conrail Caboose for shifting cars. Thanks for watching my channel
Where did the water for the sink come from? Stored in an onboard tank?
@@sardu55 The tanks that are hanging above the sink. Thanks for watching
Nice tour. My grandfather worked for the B&O railroad from the 1930’s to the 60’s. Stationed at the Benwood Yards south of Wheeling WV. I believe he was a brakeman and spent his days in a caboose. He was the best checkers player I ever knew. I got to ride briefly in a caboose at Spencer Shops, the transportation museum in Spencer, NC. Really cool experience.
That was great you got to ride in one. The railroad that owns this caboose just had an excursion with this caboose and a Central of New Jersey caboose. Thanks for watching my channel.
These International Car Company EJ&E cars ride really well and were first class cabooses
I remember the good old cabooses. I worked for The Southern Pacific and then the Union Pacific. Best route was going over the Sierras in the winter time.
@@napili5470 Nice. I'll bet that was very scenic. Thanks for watching
Sounds like a pretty awesome ride. Hot stove, with coffee on. Clickity clack
The old days of railroading.
My grandfather worked on the Reading RR. He said when they got rid of the steam locomotives that was the end of real railroading. Thanks for watching
Amazing, never saw the insides of one before!
@@markgrunzweig6377 Thank you and thanks for watching
Back in the mid 70s, when I was a telecommunications tech for Canadian National, I frequently rode in them.
@@James_Knott Thats cool. Norfolk Southern uses one at Hershey Pa. Old Conrail caboose I just posted a video a few hours ago of them backing in a spur track and finishing for the day.Thanks for watching my channel
I can tell you most cabooses are not that posh
@@doct0rnic Yes Norfolk Southern uses an old Conrail to shift cars with at Hershey Pa. It looks beat.
I have never seen a blue caboose interior, only green or beige. Interesting video!
Thank you. And thanks for watching the video. Reminds me of a Conrail blue.
Pretty cool. The old days are the best.
I agree. Thanks for watching.
I remember cabooses had a whistle that was used when the train was backing up. It was kind of a high pitch and not very loud.
Very nice. My Stepdad and his dad worked on and ran steam trains growing up in the railroad. They also helped with the original Snoqualmie Train museum by working on them and running them on a short line of track. We got to ride in every car there during that time up to about early 70's. I always like riding in the caboose, and they were still original at that time. Fun times.
@@timmyers1006 Wow that was great you were able to do that. Yes my grandfather started working on the Philadelphia & Reading Ry.in 1914 he put 50 years with that company it became the Reading sometime in the 1920s. He always told me that when the railroads went to diesel power that wasn't railroading any more.Thanks for watching.
when I was a kid in the 70s my dad let us tour a caboose. I had never seen so many centerfolds.
Lol that was funny. Thanks for watching
Sounds like every Tug Boat I’ve been on working on the Great Lakes! Lol
@@timvandenbrink4461 Lol that sure is a boat
Affairs are common in railroad crews
I’ve have ridden on many cabooses they look just like that one! In my early career when cabooses were still part of the railroad, the responsibility for the speed of the train was a joint responsibility between the engineer and the conductor. Some caboose had speedometers on them, but it was very limited, and the accuracy of a speedometer was always in question.. at that time we still had telephone poles along the right of way and on those telephone poles were markings generally a silver metal band indicating for every 10 poles 1/4 of a mile. So during the daylight hours a stopwatch once 40 poles passed by you were covering a mile. by counting the time it took to cover that mile you could determine actual train speed from the caboose. If the train was traveling too fast, the conductor had the authority and was required to reduce train speed by using that brake handle shown in this video.. the secondary use of that break handle was to place the train an emergency in the event of some sort of malfunction for those who wanted to know there’s some additional information for you.
Thanks for the information I didn't know that. I retired from the rail mill in Steelton Pa. They are still rolling rail there.Thanks for watching my channel.
I worked for the BNRR in the 80’s. I was a clerk and would dead head to different stations as needed I would sometimes ride in the engine but usually in the way car It was the best part of my job getting picked up or dropped off along the routes
Cool I never rode in one.Sounds like an interesting job. I worked in The rail mill in Steelton Pa. You probably seen rails with Steelton embossed on the rails.Thanks for watching.
My dad started out as a brakeman for the Nickel Plate when he got home from Korea. He passed in 1976 at age 53 and had worked his way up to conductor. He ran Ft Wayne IN to Bellevue OH. At his funeral, one of his fellow railroaders said my dad would setoff firecrackers in that metal caboose.
Wow lol.I'll bet that was loud. Sounds like what my grandfather told me. He was a car inspector for the Reading RR. He inspected the cars for Hershey Chocolate Corp. Some guys would throw them in the box cars. Norfolk Southern uses an old Conrail caboose to shift cars now for Hershey. I have some videos on my channel with that caboose. Thanks for watching.
Having spent a night trying to sleep on one of those benches, to call them a "bunk" is a real stretch! Back in the mid 70s, when I was a telecommunications tech, with Canadian National, working in Northern Ontario, I frequently rode freights. There was one night, when I got on the train around midnight, in Foleyet Ontario, and got back to Capreol at 7 AM. I tried sleeping on a bench, but was occasionally tossed off by the motion. Normally though, if I was riding in the caboose, I'd be up in the cupola. Otherwise, I'd be in the middle seat in the lead engine.
@@James_Knott That was a great story. I can imagine In the winter it was very cold up in that part of Canada.
@@BeeLineEast Yeah. I'd seen as low as -40°
@@James_Knott Lowest i worked in was --20 I can't imagine -40.
Wow...Surprised how industrial it is, steel everywhere.
Was thinking it would be more like an RV back there
Yes I learned some things I didn't know about them. Thanks for watching my channel
Very cool to see this I had three gen working at the J
Nice. I am glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching
Great video. Thanks again for filming 🎥 at the M&H. Ryan knows his stuff, and he will teach you a lot.That is the best caboose we have at the M&H. The CNJ needs love she had a tough life. The caboose with the round portle windows, which is in red premier on track 4, needs love to put her in service. Great video.
@@samuelbistline4973 Thank you. Yes he is good at explaining things there on the M&H. Got the 151 shifting today also. They sure did have a lot of shifting to do today. I was surprised for a Saturday.
Really cool video of American histo 3:35 ry. I remember back in the 60s, my grandpa was a engineer for the southern railway. He and those railroad men wore those blue striped hats.
@@GuyjKite Yes the 60s I rember well. My grandfather worked for the Reading. He started as a call boy in 1914. He was 15 then. Then worked at the Rutherford PA. Railroad Yard. Then around 1930 he went to Hershey and became a car inspector for Hershey Chocolate Co . He retired in 1965 with 50 years service .Thanks for watching my video.
I wanted to see the porta potty.Prob not pretty but this is how it was. Great video
@@thomasrobinson8336 Thanks lol Thanks for watching
I wished they at least opened the door to see what the caboose toilet looked like, probably looked like a boat toilet.
@@spankyharland9845 I didn't think of it at the time I would have asked him
@@spankyharland9845 in my home town, ( Eagle, Michigan) our city park purchased and refurbished a caboose for display. The toilet room was just a bit bigger than a porta-potty. It was more like an RV bathroom. Just big enough to sit down, and turn around in. Toilet had a handle that you pulled down, and everything dropped from the toilet into the holding tank under the caboose. Once you did your business, you turned to the side, and there was a very small sink with a small mirror. Room was probably 4 foot wide, 4 foot deep, and 6 foot tall... For obvious reasons, the park officials put padlocks on the door so people wouldn't actually use it..... Hope that paints a better picture for you..
@@DanPlusWater I lived in China back in the 1990's and the train toilets were terrible. Poop and pee all over the floors. Of course the door was locked when in the station because the poop and pee just went right out on the tracks.
Wow! Nice i think i smelled the new paint!😊
Yes you sure can tell it was restored. Thanks for watching
Halfway across the continent and there is an EJ&E caboose and I must say it's in very nice condition. These larger ones were not as common on their property because they had such short hauls. When my dad would take me on his sales trips on summer vacation I'd always see one of these at Waukegan IL. That was the north end of their system and the traffic density was not as strong there. So all you'd see was a switcher or two plus a road unit and this style Caboose when they were on their layover. Shortly after the Canadian National took over I have never seen a railroad wiped out so quickly as the Rolling Stock all got remarked GRY for Gary Railway. A nice reminder of days gone by
Great story. Thanks for sharing that story. This Railroad the M&H has an excursion they make quite regular with this caboose and a caboose from the Central of New Jersey railroad. They pull the two cabooses with an old General Electric 65 ton Center Cab. In fact they are running that tomorrow.
My great grandpa, my grandpa, and my dad all worked for the MKT Railroad...of course my dad was a switchman breakman and yardmaster until he took an engineer job when we moved out to East Texas. (MKT was bought out from Union Pacific around the late 80s.)
@@scoggins07 You sure did have a family of railroad workers Cool. Just my grandfather from my family worked on the railroad. He told me many stories of working on the Reading.
@BeeLineEast I had a few members of my family who worked in the railroad...my mother included.
My grandpa who raised my brothers, and I was a switchman with the Southern Pacific RR. I got to ride on a caboose before they became obsolete.
That is cool you were able to ride in one
The emergency brake valve is not used to communicate with the head end. The conductor is responsible for the train and has access to the brake valve in case of an emergency to stop the train.
Ok thanks for the information.
Thanks for sharing this!
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My late father-in-law retired shortly before his death from the E,J&E in 1975. He started as a fireman in 1939 and kept that position until retirement. I doubt that the sleeping accommodations were used since the farthest west the RR went was Joliet and Elgin and east to the steel mills in Northwest Indiana, he was home every night.
Nice story about your father in law. Those sleeping quarters in that caboose are like new. Thanks for checking out my video.
Great video!
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Awesome 🤩
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I know a lady who spent her summers Living in a Caboose. I wish I knew more of her story, and had asked her more questions, but here is what I recall her telling me:
Her father was a railroad conductor for the New York, Ontario and Western Railway. He had a caboose that was assigned to him, as was standard practice by most all railroads. Being a family man, he took most of the summer off for holiday. His entire family would load up the caboose with whatever they needed for their summer vacation and the railroad would then take the caboose to where they wanted to go and they would park on some out-of-the-way trackage or siding. I assume they were limited to locations controlled by the home railroad, but perhaps not if another railroad was willing to take the caboose onto their tracks. Sadly, I do NOT know where they spent their summers.
While the kids of the family had fun swimming and fishing and playing, mom and dad spent time repairing, refurbishing, and repainting the caboose to restore it back to tip-top shape. I suppose it was part of the deal with the railroad that made it beneficial for the family and the railroad.
What great fun it must have been to have a private caboose to live and sleep in every summer, and to travel there and back by rail.
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I cannot recall the name of the little town on southeast Iowa, that lay along the Des Moines River. But there was a smallhouse with rooms for rent, as well as a caboose that you could rent out. It was booked full for some time, so it was something that I thought that I would try to book later. That was probably ten years ago, and I had forgotten all about it. I guess that I need to research and give it a tey once again.
@@ronfullerton3162 That is cool. There is a place near Strasburg Pa. That has a grouping of them they rent out to stay in. I can't recall the name.It may be called the red caboose. This is located in Lancaster County Pa.Strasburg is a popular place you can ride steam locomotives excursion rides They have Thomas the steam locomotive there witch is a real steam locomotive that pulls excursion cars.
@@BeeLineEast That does sound grand. Can stay in a caboose, and ride a steam powered train also! Was out to Virginia City, Nevada and rode their track and was privileged enough to see their locomotives. The old steamers are just too cool.
@@ronfullerton3162 Yes they run a fairly large Steam Locomotive about 50 miles from me an old former Reading Co. 2102 5500 HP.
all those neat caboose cars replaced by FRED.
awesome
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One caboose story I was told, the plumbing had frozen in the winter. So someone went under the caboose with a torch to try and thaw it out. Suddenly there was a loud bang, as the grey water tank proceeded to let go it's now pressurized contents all over the inside of the caboose. Boss came to see what had happened, told them to hook it up to a train going to Winnipeg and pretend they never saw it.
Wow that had to be a miserable ride. Thanks for watching.
@@BeeLineEast I don't think anyone actually rode in it, they just got rid of the problem by sending it down the line.
I prefer the older cabooses made with nice oak but this one is really nice
@@arthurbrumagem3844 This Railroad does have one that was built in 1941. Central New Jersey. But the wood is painted over. Thanks for watching. I did a tour of that one also on my channel
@@BeeLineEast I used to work for the RR in the 70s and we still had the old wooden ones .
@@arthurbrumagem3844 Cool They sure did go all at one time. I remember when the old Reading Railroad yard in Rutherford Pa. was full of them sitting everywhere.
I love the close ups of the walls i turned the video off.
Very interesting. 👌
Thank you He told me some things i didn't know about them.
E, J, and E, how that used to roll off Daddy's tongue during his tales of the railroads of suburban Chicago in the early 50s.
That is cool. maybe he saw this one go by somewhere years ago.
@BeeLineEast There's a restored caboose - for overnight rent! - at a ghost town musem, at Goffs, on old Route 66 some 20 miles west of Needles, California. BNSF has 3 mainlines there, with sidings, and trains run on about 15 to 20 minutes apart. Awesome depots at Needles, Kelso (UP), and Barstow are worth visits, nearby.
@@jerroldkazynski5480 That's cool. I have never been out west. Maybe some day.There is a place near the Strasburg RR in Lancaster county Pa. That has multiple cabooses you can stay overnight in or a few nights or longer . Not sure how many they have.I know my son in law went to see his sister this past spring she lives in Arizona. He was telling me how long some of the trains were there. He said they were very long.
“Of course there was a sink for hand warshing.” 😂😂
That blue color makes me noxious..
@@frankanddanasnyder3272 Wow. Reminds me of the old Conrail Blue.
It's Phillip Seymour Hoffman! 😮
I bet my brother and grandpa rode on the caboose at one point or another. They both retired from the J Kirk yard Gary IN. After the CN take over, they forced my brother into retirement in 2012. They treated the J employees pretty bed after the take over.
That is cool that they did. That's to bad about your brother. Now that caboose resides in Middletown Pa. They just used it the other week for their ice cream excursion.
Neat!!
@@dfmpc6182 Thank you. Thanks for watching.
Always wanted to know what was in them, thanks.
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Enjoy subjects and contents of your videos. Would you consider dubbing in production ? Kid screaming is very distracting.
@@WinstonWolfe-cg7ee Yes it is distracting I'll have to check and see which video or videos they were
Why did they stop using the caboose?
@@TheFinnMcGovern Mile Post detectors i believe. They are made to pickup defects in railroad cars Some places they still use cabooses when the shift railroad cars for industries if the conductor has to go quite a ways instead of him hanging on a car. Don't quote me though I'm not a railroad expert but I think that's why they got rid of them. Thanks for watching
@@BeeLineEast Interesting. Thanks.
@@TheFinnMcGovern The crew requirements were reduced by automation, so there was no need for more men on a train than could ride in the engine.
I was a switchman on the J at Kirk Yard. Interior color is all wrong. Should be green.
I thought the elimination of the caboose was stupidly on the side of safety for railroads.
Anybody know the weight of the standard caboose? I always wanted to have one put in my land to live in, but don’t know how to get it there.
I don't know but I may be able to find out. Thanks for watching.
When the butterfly ate the banana I almost wet myself! 😮
Awesome! (But those were the most unwelcoming tour guides of all time.)
@@Joel-ip6pl Thanks for watching
So what was their job ?? Sit there and look out the window all day??
@@kennyc388 Basically yes they had to be on the look out on each side for smoking bearings. So now instead of using them they use hot box detectors.
A poor man's business car.
@@1940limited Lol yeah
@@BeeLineEast That's what I've always called cabooses. I think I picked it up from a railroad man, but can't recall. I've known the expression a long time.
@@1940limited Ok thanks i never heard that before but i know now.
@@BeeLineEast Spread it around! 🙂
@@1940limited Ok I'll mention it in someone else's video. That is a good one.
If sandpaper could talk, the host is what it would sound like.
Only people who can use that outfit, those long trousers or what ever they are called, are railwaymen. Other ppl wearing them -> facepalm.