Eastern Railroad Discussion > A CXS OLS Caboose and a Late-Running Cardinal

1.  CSX OLS caboose (#903945), Maysville, KY, 11-1-19, sits on a siding as a barge comes down the Ohio River.

2.  Amtrak’s eastbound Cardinal was running 6 hours 55 minutes late giving me a chance to photograph it in the daylight.  Here it is at Maysville, KY, 11-1-19.


Greg
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Great photos. That CSX caboose certainly looks sad. 
Bob

Never noticed a horn cluster on a caboose like the one shown in the photo. Neat catch.

Roadbed Wrote:
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> Never noticed a horn cluster on a caboose like the
> one shown in the photo. Neat catch.
Most likely from its days as a shoving unit for crossings, etc.

Cool, my friend sent me basically the same picture of Amtrak. You must have been side by side.

Jim

OLS?

In that caboose paint scheme done by CSX in the early 1990s (and applied to several dozens of cabooses) one side had Operation Life Saver (OLS) markings and the other side had Operation Redblock markings...

This photo shows the opposite side of a sister caboose 25 years ago...  http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2274265

I do like that horn on the end...   No little whimpy caboose whistle for that crew.
 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/02/19 09:10 by CSX602.

Regarding the horn.....it's used a shoving platform for a road switcher somewhere that runs backward on the mainline....having the horn relieves you of running slow over crossings.  Cab whistles are very hard to come by so a locomotive horn does the job!