Historic Photo! A former New York Central Railroad wooden steam era caboose. St. Thomas Ontario Canada. January 1970. From the internet.

Wooden railroad cabooses were pretty much outlawed from mainline freight trains by the time of this January 1970 photo taken in St. Thomas Ontario Canada.

Prior to the New York Central Railroad's use of Jade green paint and Cigar band logos begining in the late 1950's The NYC cabooses were actually very plain and wore this brown or dark red oxide color scheme on their cabooses and freight cars.

Although wooden cabooses eventually fell out of favor, some railroads like the Burlington Northern had used them on transfer freight trains and switching locals in to the late 1970's. Some railroads like the Grand Trunk Western used theirs on Maintenance of Way trains toward the end of their service lives.

This weathern beaten New York Central wooden steam era caboose, was proboubly also being used in this matter by 1970. This caboose could have actually been in it's last months of service under the succesor railroad Penn Central prior to retirement or scrapping. It was definately the end of an era.