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caboose (railroads)
a railroad car attached usually to the end of a freight train, in which railroad workers could ride and monitor track and rolling stock conditions.
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[Source: "Rail terminology" at Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_terminology)]