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the brave little tail that watched the whole train's back so nobody else had to
means The last car on a freight train, where the crew rode to keep watch over the cars ahead — and, more loosely, the very back of anything.
from From the Dutch 'kabuis' (also spelled 'kombuis'), the word for a ship's galley or cookhouse. It sailed into English as a nautical term for a kitchen cabin on a deck, then climbed ashore and onto the railroad in 19th-century America, where it came to mean that little crew car bringing up the rear — possibly a cousin of the German 'Kabüse,' a small cabin or hut.
- crew home
- Workers ate, slept, and worked inside it
- the cupola
- Raised roof box for spying on cargo
- killed by tech
- Electronic sensors made it obsolete by 1980s
- slang nickname
- Once called the crummy by rail crews
- second life
- Many now serve as diners and cabins
union pacific 25016 — operational caboose still used by up on heritage train runs, built 1967
strasburg rail road 960031 — red pennsylvania caboose displayed at strasburg tourist railroad in lancaster county
canadian national 437391 — restored steel caboose at exporail museum in montreal, iconic canadian design