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

When I was a teenager, my best friend’s mom had a caboose baby, her fourth child, at 42.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 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

This is the kind cattle are transported in—a dark wooden crate with the barest slits for ventilation, the cars linked so long that I can't see the engine or the caboose.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

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

Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. 

From Bleak House by Charles Dickens