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We Are Moving!

I will be moving this website over to the Ghost platform by the 1st of the year. You can find it at https://oklahoma-cabooses.ghost.io for now. On 1/1/2025, I will be taking down this website. Any appropriate articles will be reposted over on the Ghost site. As soon as I can get it done, I will get my original domain name of oklahomacabooses.com to point to the new platform. Still figuring out how to jump through those hoops, so I don’t have a date on that. Why am I moving? Cost. Plain and simple. I want to start writing again, but the cost to host a WordPress site is just eating up my money. Ghost is way cheaper, and they handle all of the heavy lifting that I have had to do (or pay for) in the past. So please be patient, and I will see you over there! Marc

image of caboose, how to become an associate caboose hunter
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Becoming An Associate Caboose Hunter

Looking for cabooses can be a fun and cool thing to do. But there is no reason Traci and I are the only ones doing it for oklahomacabooses.us–you can do it, too! What is An Associate Caboose Hunter? So what is that thing we call, an "Associate Caboose Hunter?" Well, it’s someone who helps us find cabooses in Oklahoma. Pretty simple, right? And we need help! After all, life intrudes, and there is just not enough time in the day to travel everywhere in the state to find these cool railroad cars and see the places around them. Not only do we need good, recent photos of the cabooses in the state, but we also need solid information about them. The includes their history, as well as current ownership. And that also includes information about cars that are no longer around–shipped out of state or simply destroyed. All of this information helps us paint the complete picture of the state of cabooses in Oklahoma. Who…

CRI&P 17043/OKKT 43/RI 17043. Geary, OK. 9/12/2021
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Geary, Oklahoma

After visiting Traci’s parents in Enid, we decided to see if we could find some cabooses on the way home. We found one in Geary, Oklahoma.

The Death of the Roadside Diner
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The Death of the Roadside Diner

Over the last few years I have noticed something that really makes me sad–the decline of the roadside diner. These establishments are part of our history and culture, and they are disappearing before our eyes.