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ProfessorGAC

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3. Been Decades I Believe

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

Fri May 1, 2026, 05:33 PM

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The technology evolved to a point that the work of the people using the caboose were superfluous.
Sort of like how integrated pneumatic brakes made the brakeman job obsolete (at least to a large degree). My grandpa was a brakeman on the Rock Island.

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When did freight trains stop using cabooses??? All the freight trains that go by in our town haven't had them [View all] a kennedy Friday OP

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Bye-bye to the caboose on trains,... see why.... magicarpet Friday #2

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They were replaced by Fred in the 80's. DEbluedude Friday #4

When I was a child Cairycat Friday #5

Sometime in the 1980's. Emile Friday #6