Quote Originally Posted by Eric_c View Post
I remember a newscast in December of 1984 stating cabooses would no longer be required on freight trains.
Really, all cabooses were used for was a place for the brakemen to hang out. This is before we had motorola radios. We have only one caboose that we still use to make long "shove" moves to Mack yard. Now a days, due to the use of radios and the deletion of the brakeman [[for signaling purposes), the crews are down to a conductor and engineer. Now you see EOT's [[end of train device) that flashes and acts as an end marker. My guess is that our one caboose will gone in a few years and replaced with another "platform" car used for shoving.