History of Train Cabooses | The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation
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- Опубліковано 17 лип 2019
- Host Mo Rocca meets with Chief Curator Marc Greuther to talk about the history of cabooses on trains. The caboose was the conductor's office, the crew's quarters and the observation platform from which to spot problems with the train. It could also be dangerous. "Slack action" -- sudden movement when slack ran in and out of a moving train -- could toss riders about. Computerized record keeping, trackside defect detectors and smaller crews made the caboose obsolete by the 1980s.
Learn more about the artifacts featured in this segment:
Detroit Toledo & Ironton Railroad Caboose, 1925 www.thehenryford.org/collecti...
Detroit & Mackinac Railway Caboose, 1912 www.thehenryford.org/collecti...
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I have been going to Greenfield Village my whole life...(I am 71) and this clip showed me something I have never seen there....a freight train!!! Thank You.
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wish I had the money to get one of these and turn it into a mini cabin
Caboose = Kombüse
Didn't know before, but it makes sense.
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When I was in the Army in the early 90’s we rode a caboose from Ft Carson to Ft Hood. It took 5 days, it was in August and it was hot.
Red is a good color for the back of a train the color as most know means Stop.. Easy to see unless you are color blind. Intentions for safety to be very noticeable by other traffic from a long distance. Great video
They make great little diners.
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MTH electric trains could put the Detroit and Mackinac paint scheme on the O scale Premier wood sided caboose, if enough people asked through the MTH website contact form.
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FREDs "Flashing Rear End Device", defect detectors, & other technology the railroads have nowadays all replaced the cabooses.
Outstanding video
I always loved this piece of rolling stock on the train! I wanted one for my very own.
Wow!! I grew up less than a mile from the Henry Ford Museum and worked weddings at Lovett Hall too. What a flashback seeing it after all these years.
i wanted a tour inside the second caboose
Looks pretty cool
mo rocca! nice
Some cabooses might have been painted red for reasons similar to why the tail lights on your car are red. So you can be more easily seen by the guy following you.
Not far off. Red was a required color to be displayed for end of train for many railroads, either by lantern, flag, or the caboose itself.
a train just doesn't look right without a caboose 😉
A train needs two things to look right:
A steam locomotive and a caboose.
Came here from Starlight Express vids. CB be looking good!!
One that could have been more clear: the caboose was the conductor's office where the paperwork was done
I always thought that the purpose of it was for the locomotive engineer to rest in it if he operate the train for a long road .Though there was a small kitchen ,toilet and such hahaha
as a retired conductor for 43 years I laugh at that Caboose they didn't look like that inside they were all dirty greasy sometimes the seats were ripped sometimes a place where you would sleep if you had a sleepover was ripped and tear all you had was a bunch of Knuckles drawbars while you didn't really have drive-bys they were too heavy but you had air hoses and stuff like that and I started laughing when I seen that one all cleaned and all done up give me a break
When I was a young kid... I seriously thought that's where they had train parties and took beaks.🙆♂️🤦♂️ahhh we kids🤪
Another tourist railroad that uses a caboose is the Huckleberry Railroad in Flint, MI, also I set my model railroad in the modern day, and I made my railroad never retired any of its cabooses, partly because I made it a tourist railroad
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Remember Canadian National red Pointe St Charles Caboose .
So back before handheld radios what did the caboose crew do if they spotted a hotbox? Would they have a way of communicating with the engine to stop and fix the problem or wait til the next stop?
My daughter asked, "What does the yellow wheel, do?"
On traditional cabooses, it is for operating brakes. On this modern replica, it probably has no function, as the brakes that the locomotive operator controls are probably sufficient for the entire train.
Thank you. Caboose in Oneonta, NY park. Very old four wheeler. In the 1883, a group of men met in it, founding The Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen. The first real union, predecessor of the current United Transportation Union. Open to the public occasionally.
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Where was this filmed and do they offer caboose rides?
I've never realized the reference to a woman's butt as a caboose, until today.
Is he British? Funny accent!
I associate those red cabooses with Walt Disney.
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I kinow what a caboose is and what it was for. But i heard that some of them didn't have bathrooms
I’m about 90% certain no cabooses had bathrooms, wooden caboose or otherwise
Why don't show inside.? Has it bath- room?
Some did, but it was very basic
Are you an engine or a caboose guy?🤣
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my caboose is bigger than this ugh
Try cutting carbs. :)