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Also, caboose motels have appeared, with the old cars being used as cabins. [18] A bay window caboose numbered FCD-17 is still being used by the Philippine National Railways for non-revenue maintenance trains. It was built in Japan in 1962 and is used as an inspection car by the Philippine National Police. [19]
The equivalent North American term is caboose, but a British brake van and a caboose are very different in appearance, and use because the former usually has only four wheels, while the latter usually has bogies, as well as American Cabooses not being used to provide braking on a train, and instead serving as a mobile office for the conductor ...
Some roads still use cabooses where the train must be backed up, on short local runs, [1] as rolling offices, or railroad police stations and as transportation for right-of-way maintenance crews. In some cases (see photo) instead of hitching a caboose, an employee stands on the last car when the train is backing up.
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A box was designed with a yellow strobe light, and equipment for monitoring air pressure through the brake line was designed to be installed in the unused coupler of the last car. Later, as cabooses were phased out, railroads moved to their current use of an end-of-train device to mark the end of the train.
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