Re: Caboose?

[Peter Schoch <pschoch@NAC.NET>]

FYI,

Most railroads have discontinued the use of Cabooses.  It is a cost
savings measure, and was reported among train enthusiasts several years
ago.

Peter Schoch

"Lemmerhirt, Fred" wrote:
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> Maybe a few of you would find this amusing:
> On an exam last Friday I used a well-worn problem about a short, two-car
> train, including a crude sketch looking reasonably similar to the real
> thing.  One question was, "What is the force is exerted on the caboose by
> the boxcar?"  During the exam, at least 2 or 3 students approached me with
> the same question (which I had never heard until this year):  "What is a
> caboose?"  (Apparently there is a "generation gap" developing here, and
> cabooses are headed down the same path as distributors with points and
> condensers!)
>
> Fred Lemmerhirt
> Waubonsee Community College
> http://chat.wcc.cc.il.us/~flemmerh/physics.html
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