Union Pacific Caboose Crow's Nest
by Alana Thrower
Title
Union Pacific Caboose Crow's Nest
Artist
Alana Thrower
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This caboose is becoming a guest house in Kansas. Hope I get to stay there!
The caboose was the last car on a freight train, often having kitchen and sleeping facilities for the train crew, and used as a vantage point for spotting problems on the train, such as smoking brakes or the separation of cars. The introduction of electronic sensors has made the caboose unnecessary.In classic railroad trains, the box-like structure above the caboose, the cupola, was also called the crow's nest.
This image has been FEATURED in the following groups:
USA Photographers Only 06-25-2017
Life After Humans 11-05-2017
Seen But Not Noticed 11-08-2017
New FAA uploads 12-03-2017
Images That Excite You 08-31-2019
Just Perfect 09-04-2019
Skytwitter Gallery 09-08-2019
Anything Transportation Everything Transportation 01-09-2020
WHAT INTERROBANG AGAIN 02-21-2023
Fine Art America Professionals 02-24-2023
Your Story of Art 02-25-2023
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June 22nd, 2017
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Comments (22)
Alana Thrower
Thank you so much Nader for featuring my photo in the group Fine Art America Professionals!
Cathy Anderson
Congratulations your wonderful image has been featured on the homepage of ATET Transportation ! Please archive your image on the discussion board!
Doug Kreuger
Wow... This caboose brings back many childhood memories for me. From the back seat of my parents car I could hardly wait to see the caboose on a passing freight train. A bonus was to see a trainman standing on a little fenced in platform at the rear of a caboose waving a flag or lantern. Slower moving trains might allow a flagrant to also see me and return a wave. L&F
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