Liberty & RR Tracks

Stopped. Watched. icon

2:20 p.m. Loooong train (lost count after 50 cars). Red lettering on side of some grain cars: “DO NOT HAMMER ON CAR.” No caboose.

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3 Comments

  1. By Johnboy
    February 18, 2009 at 8:12 pm | permalink

    Mary, I don’t mean to belittle your observation but there hasn’t been a caboose on a train for over 25 years. The federal requirement was dropped sometime in the ’80′s.(Federal Railroad Safety Act (“FRSA”), Pub.L. No. 91-458, 84 Stat. 971 (1970), codified at 45 U.S.C. Secs. 421-445 (1982)

  2. By Mary Morgan
    February 18, 2009 at 9:08 pm | permalink

    Re. the missing caboose: Yes, 25+ years and I still miss it!

  3. By anna ercoli schnitzer
    February 19, 2009 at 8:26 am | permalink

    I miss it too (and still sort of forget it won’t be there and look in vain for it every time I see the train go by); however, sometimes I do see two engines! :)