What is the last car on a train called?

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thanks people if u answer!

Answer 1

Yes, this is called the caboose (or cab, cabeese, cabin, and crummy which are a few slang terms to describe the car by various by-gone railroads).  The caboose is seldom used on freight trains today, except in back-up moves and other transfer services as the FRED (Flashing Rear End Device) has replaced the need for the car and is much, much cheaper to maintain and operate.

Answer 2

A Caboose. Today trains hardly use cabooses, so on the last car of a train is placed a 'End of Train' device (EOT) (also referred to a Flashing Rear End Device (FRED)). These act like a caboose, and report to the engineer the status of the rear end of the train (brake pressure, and if the rear end if moving).

Answer 3

Caboose.

Answer 4

Back of train is:

FRED Flashing Rear End Device ( AKA to the guys how lost a job to it F***** Rear End Device. there is allot more of them like Smart FRED dumb FRED etc....

Caboose watch the train tiny bunkhouse on Wheels kind of

Observation car: A end car with (normally) a curved back on old passenger trains still in some trains, but not on main stream Amtrak trains. a place were people would sit and talk to other passengers. some allowed you to look back wards were the train has been most didn't tho you would look in to the center of the car.

Answer 5

A caboose was a pain in the rear. When setting out cars at an industry, you can't just back the cars in from the mainline. Had to first leave the caboose someplace where you could get to it later. And if the train had to reverse direction, it took time to put the caboose on the rear again. I'm glad they're gone. But  I still "camp out" in one sometimes. I live a ways from work. And in the winter time, if it's really snowing and I have to be back to work in the morning, I stay in a caboose the railroad doesn't use anymore. I painted the inside, rehabbed to stove, put electricity in it, have a TV in there, and keep it locked up. It's very adequate. If you go to my Yahoo 360 page, there's a photo of it the last time it was used.

Answer 6

Mostly I called 'em "good news," because when one went by you, you had a chance of actually going somewhere....

And for an additional 2 cents worth, other slang terms for the caboose includes, Hack, Shack and Parlor.  "Cabeese" is actually the proper plural form of the word caboose, just like "goose" and "geese."

They usually were one of three varieties;  the "cupola" caboose with the observation position on top, the "wide vision", also a cupola cab but protruding from the sides as its name suggests, and the "bay window" caboose, its name describing it as well.  Another type was the "bobber," employing only two axles and usually of a cupola design, these were found primarily on logging railroads.

No one I know misses them.  They were a serious personal injury waiting to happen and during their long history, many a man's career ended on one, and many had their life ended on one, often times due to a broken neck or being pasted against a bulkhead.. They made train handling more difficult because you really COULD rip things that were bolted down right off the floor and great care was needed when making slack adjustments in the train. In addition, they were a major pain in the neck during local freight operations, forever in the way.

But, equipped with a nice, friendly, coal or oil burning stove, I have had many meals cooked on a caboose, especially on locals and work trains.  Do you think you've ever eaten any good Mexican food?  Wrong, wrong and wrong.  Taco time on a work train has produced the best I've ever had....

Answer 7

In the UK the last vehicle on a goods train used to be the brake van. This dated from the days when goods trains didn't have continuous brakes and the only brakes available when the train was in motion were on the engine and the brake van.

The practice of coupling brake vans to the rear of goods trains continued even after most goods trains were fitted, i.e. equipped with a continuous brake, but nowadays all the brake controls are on the engine so there is no need for a seperate brake van.

Passenger trains had (and some still do have) a brake carriage somwhere in the formation but not necessarily at the rear.

In the US/Canada the last car on a freight train is the caboose, which often has overnight accommodation for the brakesman as long-distance freight trains can take several days to reach their destination.

Answer 8

caboose

Answer 9

The last car on the train. Cabooses are rarely used anymore since technology replaced those positions. It really is a good thing that they are gone because the end of a long train can be a very violent place to be. If you hit the brakes, the slack in the train will allow a difference in speed that allows cars to slam into each other. It has been said to be so violent that a stove bolted down in the caboose would break off. A friend of mine says that even a 15 car train with a steam locomotive and caboose would give him a beating. Imagine what a 130-150 car train could do.

Answer 10

Its the Caboose....!!!!!!!!! whooooooo Whoooooo .... chuggga, chugga, toot toot!!!!!!!!! :)

Answer 11

Your question has 2 answers. First of all, you have the Modern Freight Train which no longer uses a Caboose. They have replaced the Caboose with the End of Train Device( EOT) Before a freight train departs a rail yard it is given a Air Brake test. It's done by the Engineer dialing in the numbers of the EOT device and by the Carmen or trainman doing a continnuitie test. It's part of a three part test of the Air Brake test where the Engine's head end device air pressure has to match the rear of the trains air pressure thus using the EOT Device. The air pressure can not be more or less then 3 lbs difference from one another, If there is a difference the EOT must be changed. On a Passenger Train ( short commuter ) they have an air guage at the rear car where the person performing the test is positioned. (Carmen) on a long Commute Train the use a Red Flashing Light called a Freddy..There are Federal Railroad Adminstration rules that mandates requirements on these devices. If your interested in finding out more use the internet and look under CFR49 part 232. I hope that I was of help, good luck and hiball on your airtest.... ifxtrns