Who said red cabooses are extinct?
There is a local based out of Kenwood Yard that works north to switch the few industries that are left between Albany and Mechanicville. I have occasionally seen them using a caboose as a shoving platform and it was nice to see a caboose on trains even if the windows are boarded up and they look worn out. However, I caught what appeared to be a freshly painted Canadian Pacific caboose on September 13, 2014 on one of the new re-laid tracks in Colonie Yard.
Here are additional pictures from RRPictureArchives.com showing it before and after her transformation.
We still have one in Bluff yard, but it sees very little use. Occasionally a crew will use it going up to the GP mill or when doing a shove move of commuter cars from Bombardier. There is, or at least used to be, a white one based out of Fort Edward. Rapido made a model of that one, and now I'm seriously tempted...
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