Traditional Caboose Style

Monongahela Railroad #67 shows the traditional American caboose design with the cupola on top for monitoring the cars ahead. Many Americans are familiar with the small car, usually red, that announced the end of a freight train. Called a CABOOSE the word is thought to come from the Dutch kabuis or cabin house. The origins of the car itself date back to the early days of railroading.

Cabooses have been largely replaced by the automated "end of train device". but are still seen on freight trains that have to make reverse moves over public grade crossings..

This car, property of the Smithsonian Institution, is on loan to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg, Pennsylvania. It was built by the International Car & Equipment Company of Chicago in 1949.

The Monongahela, a coal hauler in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, was always a subsidiary of other railroads until it was absorbed into Conrail in 1993. It should not be confused with the Monongahela Connecting Railroad.