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Cold Caboose with its Replacement
A former Chessie System/C&O bay-window caboose is looking a bit forlorn as it heads up the "VACO" connection track at Deep Water, West Virginia on CSX H701. This caboose will be used for the conductor to ride and watch the reverse move as the train will reverse to a yard in Alloy, WV on Watco's Kanawha River Railroad.
"VACO" stands for "Virginian-Chesapeake and Ohio" as this track was originally built as an interchange between the Virginian Railway and the C&O.
The irony here is the EOTD (End of Train Device) attached to the caboose as it was the device that caused an icon of North American railroading to disappear from almost every freight train.
Cold Caboose with its Replacement
A former Chessie System/C&O bay-window caboose is looking a bit forlorn as it heads up the "VACO" connection track at Deep Water, West Virginia on CSX H701. This caboose will be used for the conductor to ride and watch the reverse move as the train will reverse to a yard in Alloy, WV on Watco's Kanawha River Railroad.
"VACO" stands for "Virginian-Chesapeake and Ohio" as this track was originally built as an interchange between the Virginian Railway and the C&O.
The irony here is the EOTD (End of Train Device) attached to the caboose as it was the device that caused an icon of North American railroading to disappear from almost every freight train.