Sooner or later, you might take a job that will require you and your family to move. You will likely incur significant expenses in the process, and if you are like most people, you will want your employer to pay for at least some of them. The following advice should help you handle this negotiation as effectively as possible. Focus on Your Interests
The Railroad Caboose. For more than a century the railroad caboose was a fixture on the end of freight trains. The real purpose of the caboose was to provide a sheltered vantage point from which trainmen could watch the cars ahead, sleep, cook and eat their meals, and do their paperwork. It served as the working headquarters of the freight conductor and his rear brakeman.
Nowadays, the only purpose for a caboose on freight railroads is for, as already stated, long shove moves so the conductor and/or brakeman don't have to ride hanging from the ladder's on the side's of the cars. That becomes very tiresome after a while and can be quite dangerous. The E.O.T. or End of Train Device replaced the caboose. It's linked up to the H.O.T. or Head End of Train in the lead locomotive and shows how much air the train has for its brakes from the head end to the rear.