Feb 2, 2021 · Along with its diverse fleet of steam and diesel locomotives, and its renowned fleet of Streamliner passenger trains, Union Pacific is also known for its unique fleet of steel cabooses. The design features of their high centered cupola make UP steel cabooses some of the most recognizable cabooses in North America.

Aug 4, 2024 · Missouri Pacific Steel Cabooses-- Missouri Pacific Railroad was controlled by Union Pacific after December 22, 1982. At that time, MoPac had 651 cabooses, including 407 bay window cabooses, 208 cupola cabooses, and 36 transfer cabooses.

A Brief History of the Caboose A strange word for a strange railroad car that somehow survived for more than a hundred years, from the days of oil burning lamps into the computer age. The origins of both the car and the word are surrounded as much by legend as by fact.

Union Pacific began using cabooses almost from the first, as early as 1865, as the road's construction forces marched across Nebraska. The equipment record book dating from 1926 shows cabooses with build dates from as early as 1870. …

Portola CA UP 24592 ex-RI 17174, steel, bay window, Western Pacific Railroad Museum, 530-832-4131 Cheyenne Wells CO UP 24598 ex-RI 17180, steel, bay window, built 1967, Ballpark, south of US 40, L. E. Beek, 719-767-5466 Schuyler NE UP 24620 ex-RI 17202, steel, bay window, built 1971, Park, along Union Pacific tracks

This modernized, railroad-built caboose was used in the Pacific Northwest, and has unique “billboards” on its sides. Built by Union Pacific Railroad, Omaha, NE; August 1952. Originally UP #3947, this riveted, all-steel Class CA-5 caboose was built as one of a group of 100 (#3900-3999).

Union Pacific began using EOT devices in 1984. Cabooses became a uniquely American tradition. Overseas, their use had been rare or eliminated many years before. Even in the United States, technological change began eliminating the need for …

Built by Pullman in 1903 for the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, later Los Angles & Salt Lake, then Union Pacific. Re. Ex-RI 17097, "What Do We Do? We Work For You" Display; Gering, NE. Ex CRIP 17147, displayed at UP North Little Rock Yard.

The caboose served several functions, one of which was as an office for the conductor. A printed "waybill" followed every freight car from its origin to destination, and the conductor kept the paperwork in the caboose. The caboose also carried a brakeman and a flagman.

Feb 20, 2013 · Union Pacific's Common Standard CA-class cabooses first built in 1905-1907 were the system-wide standard design for cabooses until 1913, and were built using steel-strengthened wooden underframes.