Other uses for cabooses

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I knew 2 people who had a caboose in their back yard. The first was a guy named Pete Frampton (no, not Peter Frampton the rock star). He lived in Upper Arlington, Ohio, and was a huge railroad fanatic.

The other was owned by a landscaper, who had it by his swimming pond as a changing room.... New Dover, Ohio, just outside Marysville.

[edit] I just looked at satellite imagery of the landscapers old home... It's gone. Not just the caboose, the whole place is gone.. house and all.
 
UP and BNSF use them for a "snow bus", basically locomotive, caboose, locomotive. It is outfitted more like a coach as it is used to get crews to trains when roads are very bad, as they can be in northern and western plains winters.
 




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