Big Jim, Maybe we led sheltered lives, but I too never heard a caboose called anything but caboose or cabin (at ex PRR locations only). There again I never heard a sill step called a "stirrup". An O.P. lever or a cut release lever was never referred to as a coupler lever either. Flat cars were not known as "flatbeds", and the coupler shank is not the same as a"drawbar". But I only had 41 years of service with PC, Conrail and NS in the mechanical department. Doug
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