Neat find, the end clip of it being on a train explains why its there. Its because the operations they do requires a shoving platform. Technically thats what the caboose would be referred to as currently, a shoving platform. Which is basically just something a conductor can use to stand on and use as shelter if theres a storm, while the locomotives push the train. Its required that theres a conductor at the end of a shoving train, who has radio communication with the engineer on what to do. (go fast, go slow, stop, etc) If there wasnt a shoving platform, the conductor would have to hold onto the end of the last freight car and if its a long shove move, that can be tiring and of course if theres a storm, would be quite uncomfortable being wet. Cabooses like the one you saw, the only things they make sure that works, is that it still rolls safely and the air brakes works. Its not used as full caboose like 30ish+ years ago with employees sleeping in it and doing paperwork, they just keep it in use for the convenience of the conductor when shoving. After looking on Google maps, the track goes to a magnesium plant about 10 miles North of there, which could be about 20 or so minutes of hanging onto the end of a freight car if there wasnt a shoving platform. Hopefully this explains everything. Nice video of the showing the inside and the surrouding area

I love this video; while it's sad to see that old caboose in such disrepair, at least I can appreciate the quiet and solitude of its location. I also enjoyed the quiet tune you used in the video and would like to know more about it. Thank you for posting this video, I really enjoyed it.

Ah, the old CA-11 caboose. For those interested, the big red P on the bay window stands for "pool". This is an indication of a romanticized, bygone era where the conductor had his own caboose. Wherever the conductor went, so did his caboose. But after a while, the railroads found that it was cheaper to just have one caboose for any train that had a need for one. That P means they all share the same caboose now.

As a child I always wanted to ride on a caboose......I always wondered what the inside looked like too. Thanks for showing me!

It's a show of how things never stay the same and changes aren't always for the better. As I get older and my family gets smaller, I long for a time machine to go back to when everything was good and everyone I cared about was still here.

Thank you Nomad, this was fun and interesting to watch!

I was so afraid you were going to open a door and have a snake looking back at you. Very cool old train car!

There's something strangely soothing about these old train wrecks. Remnants of a past when people took time to live, travelling so much slower than today.

Its nice to see that it hasn't been gutted and vandalized. Gauges and seats still there, etc. Pretty cool.

This is UP25821, a class CA-11 caboose built in the 1970's. Parked just north of the wye with the UP main, she appears to be used as a shoving platform to switch cars on that stretch of track known as the Rowley Branch. There is a large US Magnesium facility 10.7 miles to the north. She was gorgeous in her heyday! www.rrpicturearchives.net/rsPicture.aspx?id=241111

I love doing stuff like this. Thanks for sharing!

Very cool find. Thanks for sharing

I found you again Chuck!!! Computer crashed lost everything. I Love following you through Utah!!! Great video!!! Thanks...Peace!!! Bill

for those not old enough to remember,,,,,,,,,,,, many cabooses had a belt, driven off the axle, which turned a generator for electricity. thus a battery was needed when train is not moving.

The track looked to shiny to be abandoned, figured they would be coming back for that car.

This is so cool. I filmed a similar Union Pacific caboose, but could not get inside. Great video.

wonderful. It looked so solid and alone out there in the open ! But then it got hitched and put to use .... Life goes on !

The ending was cool. The abandoned old caboose found it's home again.

Very cool video. Thanks for sharing 👍

I was thinking the same thing as others while watching, the tracks are too clean and shiny and it's been travelled on recently. Neat video!

I saw a coyote chasing a jack rabbit over here in New Mexico last month and it was so hot they were both just walking. A lot of the older cabooses had bunks and chairs and some were called assigned cabooses with the Conductor having his own assigned caboose.

Nice video man! Keep it rolling! 😉

I met people in Denver who bought Rio Grande cabooses, fixed them up real nice as a kids play area, or a Party place, and in one case a guest house. They were in excellent shape, having been taken out of service so there was no broken glass, or anything destroyed inside just a little tagging on the outside. If you had any interest in this caboose I bet you can buy it for very little. Then pull it onto and flatbed, take it to your property prepared with a strip of track. And you'll have .something nice. Take out all the appliances, give it power from your home lines, put in 220/120 lines and plugs and you can .do anything you wish. I like the extra bedroom part of it.

this does not look abandoned, as you can see the rails are shiny and so are the wheels. although im sure that it is not really used by the union pacific. very cool find though!

Thanks for the video.

Beautiful bay window caboose! I think that's what it's called. Maybe Union Pacific is going to restore it so they are taking it back.

Both the caboose and the actual rail road track look in reasonable condition, I am presuming this is an abandoned railroad , just surprised at how good that track looks.

Union Pacific CA-11 type caboose #25821 built in 1979. Too bad it's been abused so badly. To see a picture of what it looked like when it was brand new do a search for "Union Pacific CA-11 Caboose 25821" look for the result at RailroadPicutreArchives.net .

Amazing find

I love the old school caboose Union Pacific railroad they had those in the 70s and their was a commercial about it🪙❤️🪙🪙❤️🪙🪙🪙❤️🪙❤️❤️❤️🛤🛤🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂

Cool find!

cool find! ty for the video

UP still uses a platform caboose here on the old MKT and MOPAC nee' Texas&Pacific nee' Midland Valley that's still in MOPAC paint although it's windows and I believe, doors are sealed up with steelplates.

Wasn't abandoned buddy. Those are good trax & the wheels are shiny.

They just use it as a backing platform for the conductor to stand on when the train makes long back up moves. The track was in good shape, shiny rails and not abandoned.

Nice video. Liked and subscribed.

That work great on my N Scale train 🚂 set

This caboose is a total disgrace. If I owned it I would put it back into its original glory. And yes I worked for the Union Pacific way back in 1965 and they kept them in great shape. There nothing like riding a caboose on the end of a long train.

I'm no train expert, but in hopes of shedding a little light on this, I am familiar with the area and what goes on around it. This is located 69 miles or so west of Salt Lake City, Utah along I80, just south of a almost abandoned town of Delle. (The only gas station between Salt Lake and the Nevada border on I80). In this area (The West Desert) are many abandoned towns, mostly mining c1900's as well as many hazardous chemical intallations, both private and military. Dugway Proving Grounds, Tooele Army Depot, etc...UP also has a major incinarator for toxic hazardous things like transformers, etc....There are many many wyes that run off of the UP line that runs parallel to I80 between SLC and Nevada that go to a number of "restricted access" type areas

these tracks are not abandoned you can tell because the rail tops are still shiny if their rusted than that means there abandoned

Indeed the wheels are also shiny meaning it had been recently rolling...

Awesome discovery!

Cool that old track

Gone, but not forgotten. 🚂 🇺🇸

Years ago we had one of these cars placed together and a restaurant was made.

I saw 3 abandoned railcars from a bridge, the tracks are covered with grass. I might visit them some time.

While it might be an "old" UP caboose, those CA-11s were the last UP purchased.

cool find

thanks

Looks to be that a local dropped there cab while doing switching duty along the main line. Cabs these days are used only in long back up moves and nothing more. I have to ask this. What is at the vary end of the line that the cab was on?

Fkn. Vandals.

Is that caboose still there today December 9 2017

When this was moved out to the desert, WE moved it out there so Vena wouldn't find it and scrap it like he did to several other cabooses.

The rails weren't rusty so the caboose wasn't parked there for a long period of time.

Is it abandoned??

Although it's rather close to the main line, it looks rather isolated!

Nice, thanks :-)

When Union Pacific needs to use the caboose the can hook it up from the shelter when they opened the shelter door and then when thair done put the caboose back in and clean the grafitie off

9:42 nice shot!

Definitely not abandon, they’re using it for some sort of operation in the yard

To add to my other remark, the caboose now has a home. Or so it looks like it.

Where off the freeway? What mile marker? Would love to go visit it!

It vanished one day later

At least they still use it

They should send that caboose to Old Sacramento. At the California State Railroad Museum.

What's the track it was on abandoned?

Is it still there?

nice!! Too bad it has been vandalized.

Another KZfaqr who has is own channel, down in Florida, was in the Arizona desert and went down some tracks not in use now, and found a number of commuter cars. He uses them in his opening scene of his channel. Minforce, for short. Kinda wonder why this car is out in nowhere. Why didn't they scrap it or give it a home.

Look like old Southern Pacific caboose.

So that track is not abandoned,

That caboose is actively used for shoving down to Mag Corp.

great.we dont get this in england.the caboose is a great

I bet the north and south line is abandoned as well

Looks like it fell off a train. Those tracks look used like at least once a week

Such a shame seeing an old caboose being treated like that. Where exactly is it?

Most of these here in the mid=west are rusted out and shot full of holes.

I would say it is acting a temporary buffer stop and or a derailer. Should there be a runaway , the runaway is switched to the line the old caboose is on .Should there be a fire or chemical leak from the resulting pile up ,it is as far away from human habitation as possible .

An old 800 caboose been a lot miles in one of them. They were rough riders .The cupola caboose were much nicer..surprised the RR lets that sit there..

It's a "shoving platform" for trains that have to back up that line to the U.S. Magnesium plant ten miles to the north (goo.gl/maps/s2iQRLQprU22). They park the shoving platform near the wye to the mainline, where it waits until the next train has business at the magnesium plant. You can see the caboose on Google Maps satellite view here: goo.gl/maps/bmWuo34Xmgn

I badly want someone to restore that

And it's just sitting there in the middle of nowhere?

Cabooses are retired from the railroads now.

Where is this in Utah?

This is close to the new area c - 55 z

What town were you in?

Is that the salt flats in the background?

Any idea car number? Thanks for nice video

Just subscribe nice . I know I am late

Trains!

it's on Google Earth on 40°46'4.63"N 112°46'20.28"V

What a sad lonely sight

where is the shitter?

They welded the door to the toilet closed because nobody wants to clean that out anymore.

Trains.

looks as if you are at a WYE.

Do NOT let the railroad police catch you. You are trespassing just for being on the tracks.

Too bad it wasn't a Smithsfield & Weston caboose from 1871. You could potentially get 10 million dollars for that find.

Looks like your in Area 51 and hiding in a Union Pacific caboose 👽🛸🚂🛤

Riding on it would be an invitation for a foamer to report you...