Any small and crowded place: especially the cab of a locomotive (Notes and Queries, 10 S. ii. 214) and the narrow accommodation allotted to workmen, drovers, &c., on railway trains.
1839. We have a postmaster in our little village, who is a most thorough electioneerer, and in his little caboose of a post office I found electioneering interferences.—Mr. Preston of So. Car. in the House of Representatives, Feb. 15: Congressional Globe, Appendix, p. 343.
1859. Providentially, almost the first man he met in the ‘caboose’ was an old acquaintance, a drover from the West, who was passing down with a lot of cattle.—Knick. Mag., liii. 329 (March).
1881. The caboose of the construction train, containing workmen and several boys.—Chicago Times, June 18. (N.E.D.)
1888. A caboose drawn by two engines jumped the track at Great Barrington, Vt.—Daily Inter-Ocean (Farmer).
