From dust jacket notes: "The Railroad Caboose is the most distinctive, most comprehensive volume ever built around a piece of railroad rolling stock. Here's the biggest freight-trainload of railroadiana, legend and lore, ever hauled between hard covers. A century of tradition is served up in easy-to-read style with a matchless picture gallery. Technically, there can be no freight train without a caboose, complete with marker lights. And no library of railroad or American history can be called complete without The Railroad Caboose, compiled by the nation's oldest and foremost living railroad historians." With more than 165 Illustrations.