caboose
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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
“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
These stampeders who did not die of scurvy, hardship, starvation, or accident, and who returned via Edmonton, used the cabooses for shelter while they wrote home for money.
From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey
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