caboose
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The group came together at Sedalia, Mo., high school, scrounged up money and bought a caboose from a local salvage yard.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
The band has kicked off previous albums in New York with great fanfare, once rolling down Fifth Avenue on a flatbed truck and on another occasion riding on a caboose into Grand Central Terminal.
From Reuters • Oct. 20, 2023
“If disability is on the caboose of the writing chain, we will be the first people to get pushed out of jobs,” he tells The Times.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2023
When it comes to funding, "we're always the caboose of the train," Clegg said of his county.
From Salon • Dec. 14, 2022
I never found out why Mr. Tuttle was way back there at the caboose when the train pulled in.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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