Caboose
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Early wooden cabooses were numbered and then assigned to conductors. It became his home away from home, and was often decorated to suit his personal tastes. The caboose would have been equipped with a pot-bellied stove, ice box, and three beds which would have been used by the conductors and trainmen. There were no washroom facilities. The conductor also used the caboose for paperwork and administrative duties. Originally the caboose were made of wood, something that did not change until the 1970s. Newer cabooses were equipped with a washroom, storage space, water tank and purifier, hotplate, refrigerator, warming oven and a pull-out couch for napping.
- Subject(s)
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 48.71664 Longitude: -94.56711
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Rainy River Public LibraryEmail:libraryrr@gmail.com
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