A caboose is a crewed North American railroad car coupled at the end of a freight train. Cabooses provide shelter for crew at the end of a train, who were formerly required in switching and shunting, keeping a lookout for load shifting, damage to equipment and cargo, and overheating axles.
A Burlington Northern extended-vision caboose at the end of a train in 1993
A preserved Toronto, Hamilton, & Buffalo caboose car on exhibit at the Toronto Railway Museum
A former ATSF caboose now being used by the BNSF as a switching platform.
A retired wooden Grand Trunk Western Railroad caboose
A railroad car, railcar, railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck, also called a train car, train wagon, train carriage or train truck, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport network. Such cars, when coupled together and hauled by one or more locomotives, form a train. Alternatively, some passenger cars are self-propelled in which case they may be either single railcars or make up multiple units.
A passenger car of the China Railway, 2011
A freight car (boxcar type) for the South Australian Railways, 1926
A Metropolitan line S8 Stock at Amersham in London
An interior of a Circle line S7 Stock in London
