Caboose, cabin car, crummy, way car, van, ape cage, throne room, hack, buggy, the office, shanty, monkey house, bedbug haven-American railroaders have known the last car on a freight train by all these names and more, and often as an ever-so-humble home. |
The engine got most of the attention, but the "little red caboose," which was also brown, green, blue or yellow, was where the action was. |