WHY ARE CABOOSES/CABEESES RED?

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On the Virginian also it was "Cab" "Cab" Track Etc... Growing up around my Grandfather in  Mullens and Roanoke I never heard anything else...Ken Tanner
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> Ed Painter; A Virginian from Giles County living in Russellville, AR

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> Nuclear Plant)

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> Throughout all my discussions with N&W employees over the years the

> term "cab" was consistently used.  Different railways used different

> terms.  I always remember being in Warwick Tower in Ohio with the Penn

> Central operator who was a former NYC employee.  His radio conversation

> with a train crew of ex PR employees was especially interesting relative

> to their discussion relative to caboose or cabin car.  The the NYC man

> consistently said caboose while the consistent response from the PRR

> engineer was cabin car.  It was a pretty lengthy conversation.  I found

> the whole thing rather amusing.  And too.....the NYC and PRR folks

> really didn't like each other very much.  This was very obvious in the

> communications.

> 

> Ed Painter; A Virginian from Giles County living in Russellville, AR

> (currently in the New Orleans area for several weeks at Waterford

> Nuclear Plant)

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> Some N&W Equipment Guides used the term "Cabin Cars," others used the

> term 

> "Caboose Cars."  During my career with the N&W I don't think that I ever

> 

> heard anyone on the part of the N&W that I was familiar with use the

> term 

> "cabin car" in everyday operations.  Instead, cabooses were called

> simply 

> "cabs," as in the "cab track" or the "cab supplyman" or as in

> "Everyone's on 

> the cab.  Let's go."

> 

> Gordon Hamilton

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> >I feel compelled to mention that on N&W they were Cabin Cars - not 

> >cabooses. ;-)

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> > Mark Peele

> > Catonsville, MD

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