about cabooses

[nachoman]

I remember seeing cabooses regularly until the mid 1980s. 1985 or 1986 they began to be phased out, and scarce by 1987. I do recall a short period that cabooses returned for a few months around here on the Southern Pacific. I was too young to know why, but I do remember a few months when I saw trains with cabooses sometime in about 1986 or 1987. I have seen cabooses on local trains and work trains, but as far as I know, the caboose is locked up and serves only as a platform on the end of the train. Of course, cabooses are still very common on model railroads, even those set in the modern era