Caboose (Enthusiast Color) (Enthusiast Color Series) - Softcover

Mike Schafer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0760303762 ISBN 13: 9780760303764

Publisher: Motorbooks International, 1997

Synopsis

All styles, all vintages and all colors of the unique little cars that bring up the rear! For more than 100 years, the caboose has been a part of the railroad scene. Mike Schafer offers this full-color gallery filled with caboose history and development, plus interior and exterior design details, and discussion of the life of a railroad conductor who lives in cabooses. Tells of the ultimate demise of the caboose and its uses after retiring from the tracks.

About this title

About the Author:

Mike Schafer hails from Rockford, Illinois, where he recalls his earliest train-watching experiences on the Illinois Central, Milwaukee Road, Burlington Route, and Chicago & North Western. Mike and his little dog Archie reside in a house (which includes a 1,600-square-foot model railroad) next to BNSF's busy Twin Cities mainline in a small town outside Chicago where he also serves as village trustee and occasionally mayor pro tem.

About this edition

• Publisher: Motorbooks International
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0760303762
• ISBN 13: 9780760303764
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96