WHY ARE CABOOSES/CABEESES RED?

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Some N&W Equipment Guides used the term "Cabin Cars," others used the term 
"Caboose Cars."  During my career with the N&W I don't think that I ever 
heard anyone on the part of the N&W that I was familiar with use the term 
"cabin car" in everyday operations.  Instead, cabooses were called simply 
"cabs," as in the "cab track" or the "cab supplyman" or as in "Everyone's on 
the cab.  Let's go."

Gordon Hamilton

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>I feel compelled to mention that on N&W they were Cabin Cars - not 

>cabooses. ;-)

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> Mark Peele

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