caboose

“There are some parallels here that I think we need to think about because you always want the caboose going fast, slower than the front of the engine, and that’s not what’s happening,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

The group came together at Sedalia, Mo., high school, scrounged up money and bought a caboose from a local salvage yard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

The band has kicked off previous albums in New York with great fanfare, once rolling down Fifth Avenue on a flatbed truck and on another occasion riding on a caboose into Grand Central Terminal.

From Reuters ● Oct. 20, 2023

“If disability is on the caboose of the writing chain, we will be the first people to get pushed out of jobs,” he tells The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2023

Then she handed me a red lantern, the kind that hangs on the back of a train's caboose.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

And now, not only do we know they risked riders’ lives for years, but the swift action to cover their cabooses cripples the region’s infrastructure.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2021

Somewhere on Frankfort Avenue live dinosaurs, buffalo, long-horned cattle, steam engines and cabooses.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 18, 2016

In the long run, though, two-man crews may become another relic of the industry, “The same way nobody still thinks we need cabooses on the back of trains,” said Grady Cothen, former administrator at the FRA.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2016

Tents first started popping up in the 1940s, and then trailers — the Doughans’ among them — and even five cabooses from the Long Island Rail Road.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2014

On my departure from Corn Island I had taken an order from an English trader to bring out two patent American cabooses for him, which I then had on board.

From Journal of Voyages Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate... by Jacob Dunham