A car used on freight or construction trains as travelling quarters for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car. It usually is the last car of the train.
A freight-train car usually attached to the rear of a train for the use of trainmen in giving and receiving signals, handling car records and performing other duties.
the car at the end of the train where workers rode and rested.
A term used in the United States to describe a brake van.
Car for the brakeman and other crew; office for the conductor at the rear of a freight train.
The rolling office and living quarters for the crew of a freight train. Sometimes called crummy, bobber or way car.
A car, usually placed at the end of a freight train, in which the conductor has an office and living quarters. With increasing use of computer controls, cabooses are being replaced with ETD (End of Train Device) Also known as bobber, brain box, bouncer, buggy, cabin, cage, chariot, crummy, hack, palace, van, brake van (UK), and way car. Plural is cabooses, NOT "cabeese"
a car on a freight train for use of the train crew; usually the last car on the train
a manned railway car attached to the end of a freight train
guard's van; on goods train a carriage for workmen
A car attached to the rear end of a freight train for use by the train crew.
End of train; non-revenue car.
A car which is attached to the rear of a freight train and serves as office and headquarters for the conductor and trainmen while they are in transit. Sometimes called cabin car, way car, hack, shanty, or crummy.
A caboose (US railway terminology) or brake van or guard's van (British terminology) is a manned rail transport vehicle coupled at the end of a freight train. Although cabooses were once used on nearly every freight train in North America, their use has declined and they are seldom seen on trains, except on locals and smaller railroads.
