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The Railroad Caboose. For more than a century the railroad caboose was a fixture on the end of freight trains. The real purpose of the caboose was to provide a sheltered vantage point from which trainmen could watch the cars ahead, sleep, cook and eat their meals, and do their paperwork. It served as the working headquarters of the freight conductor and his rear brakeman.
In most cases, people have either forgotten about the caboose or don't know what it is, he said. Some young kids have never seen a caboose on the end of a train, he said. They've been gone for so long.They are an interesting piece of history for our kids..he caboose's role as a rolling office also is no longer needed. Technology took over the main areas of paperwork, said Mark Davis, a spokesman for Union Pacific Corp., which operates about 32,000 miles of tracks.