Sold in 1965 to TS Section Foreman Loyd or sold for scrap (42 cars). It With the introduction of the ETD, the conductor moved up to the front of the train with the engineer. This practice of not producing a matching caboose for a loco is typical of many model railroading manufacturers and not just (No. Subscribe | TYCO's Burlington Northern Caboose is solid green in color with white lettering and carries Eugene said, "608 was the first locomotive I ever worked on as part of an engine crew (at the museum, of course).". TYCO catalog image, Clementine These were the only WP cars to receive yellow paint. The earliest known printed record of "caboose" used to describe the railcar appeared in 1859 in court records in conjunction with a lawsuit filed against the New York and Harlem Railway. engine, Owned by the Sacramento Valley Live Steamers, Steel, bay window, no markings; Olney Land & This caboose is a steel, Bay Window, model C-30-6. Other uses for the caboose include "special" trains, where the train is involved in some sort of railway maintenance; as part of survey trains that inspect remote rail lines after natural disasters to check for damage;[citation needed] or in protecting the movement of nuclear material within the United States. did have a white plastic piece that sat inside the shell to provide windows for their example. It was previously at the Golden Gate Railroad Museum, San Francisco.