caboose
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“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
An old railroad caboose has been transformed into The Railway Cafe, offering coffee, light breakfast and lunch.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
As the calliope swung into ‘Marching Through Georgia’, Uncle Sam unfolded himself out of the caboose.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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
This is a guy who speaks of himself in the third person and speaks of cabooses.
From Time ● Nov. 10, 2011
"We're on the home stretch," he admitted, "and old Fourteen and Twenty-two will look pretty good to us, after cook-cars and cabooses."
From Neighbours by Stead, Robert J. C.
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