Little Red Caboose
by Thom Zehrfeld
Title
Little Red Caboose
Artist
Thom Zehrfeld
Medium
Photograph - Fine Art Photography
Description
"Little Red Caboose!" by Thom Zehrfeld
Thanks for visiting my fine art photography site! Cabooses may be a thing of the past and, many have been put out to pasture but, they still hold memories of rail days gone past!
A caboose was a car attached to the rear of the train. Usually, as the crew's quarters. They were required for switching and shunting, on freight trains and, to keep a lookout for load shifting, damage to equipment and freight.
The caboose dates to a derivation of the Dutch word "kombuis," which referred to a ship's galley. Use of cabooses began in the 1830s, when railroads housed trainmen in shanties built onto boxcars or flatcars.
This one was photographed on the outskirts of Tillamook,Oregon on the Oregon Coast.
This image has been converted to High Dynamic Range (HDR) by combining three different exposures to give the image more detail and color.
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October 11th, 2014
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