caboose

     

A caboose (North American railway terminology) or brake van or guar's van (British terminology) is a manned rail transport vehicle coupled at the end of a freight train. Although cabooses were once used on nearly every freight train in North America, their use has declined and they are seldom seen on trains, except on locals and smaller railroads.

Trivia about caboose

  • From Dutch “kaban huis”, meaning ship’s galley, in U.S. it came to mean last car on a train
  • A Dutch word for a ship's galley became this last car of a train
  • In Britain, it's a kitchen on a ship's deck; in the U.S., it's traditionally the last car on a freight train
  • From the Ahnapee & Western, the museum has this type of car whose name once referred to the galley of a ship
  • Traditionally, it was red & found at the end of a freight train
  • It can be a ship's food preparation area or the last car on a freight train

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