On the American railways what is the caboose
Caboose railroad car design, the brake van, was used on British and Commonwealth railways. These provided the additional function of serving as a supplemental braking system for trains not fitted with a continuous braking system, and keeping chain couplings taut. Cabooses were used on every freight train until the 1980s, when safety laws requiring the presence of cabooses and full crews were relaxed. Developments in monitoring and safety technology such as lineside defect detectors and end-of-train devices resulted in crew reductions and the phasing out of caboose cars. Nowadays, they are generally only used on rail maintenance or hazardous materials trains,
Caboose appeared in 1859 in court records in conjunction with a lawsuit filed against the New York and Harlem Railway. Like many nautical terms this one may have come from Danish. The Danish word for a galley is "kabys". The Danish "y" is pronounced like the English "oo", thus "caboose". The plural is "kabyser". There is some disagreement on what constitutes the proper plural form of the word "caboose." Similar words, like goose (pluralized as "geese") and moose (pluralized as "moose"), differ. The most common pluralization of caboose is "cabooses," with some arguing it should remain "caboose". It was common for