Sentence examples for train caboose from inspiring English sources

Abel uses an old train caboose, parked in his backyard in Westport, as an office.

Rooms $56 DaraMary Spend the night in your very own authentic train caboose.

He worked briefly on the rigs; underground, in a coal mine; and, on the railroad, manning freight-train cabooses for the Union Pacific, a job in which he invested particular pride, believing, as he put it, that "the efficient transportation of mail, consumer and capital goods, bulk commodities, etc., is vital to the health and growth of our country".

Java Junction is designed to resemble a train's caboose, a 12-foot by 20-foot rectangle painted bright yellow with a burgundy roof.

The train's caboose morphed into a party car, as the young crowd stood on benches, drank beer from paper bags and cheered upon entering every station on the route.

Otherwise Ms. Childs and Sheryl Sutton and a few others told elliptical stories and acted out slow-motion tableaus (Patty Hearst holding her rifle, the young Einstein and his wife on a train's caboose platform).

The last rider in the standings earns the title of the Lanterne Rouge, or Red Lantern, a moniker that comes from the red lantern at the back of a train's caboose.

That carnage has left behind an island of misfit toys, trains whose cabooses have square wheels and bird fish who are trying to swim in thin air.

When it is paired with the wail of a standard siren, the effect is hard to ignore — like the combination of a bagpipe's high chanter and low drone, or perhaps like a train whistle and the caboose that moves that whistle through space.

WHIPPANY RAILWAY MUSEUM "Pumkin Festival 2001," featuring a pumpkin market crafts fair, along with Pumpkinliner train rides and antique cabooses.

He made the not-so-seamless transition from rail fan to rail businessman by collecting anything that reminded him of those childhood days: trainmen's keys, passenger-train china, photographs, cabooses -- and then, well, locomotives.