There was not even a caboose.
"Cuba, Old and New"
Albert Gardner Robinson
The trainman who had put him off down the line collared the lad the minute his feet touched the platform of the caboose.
"The-Circus-Boys-Across-the-Continent-or-Winning-New-Laurels-on-the-Tanbark"
Darlington, Edgar B. P.
His frequent stoppages at the caboose-house, to confer with the cooks, indicated the second mate, who is always, for some reason or other, a sort of "Betty," or "cot-quean," as Shakspeare calls it, continually quiddling about the galley, to the annoyance of the doctor, as the ship's cook is generally called.
"An Old Sailor's Yarns"
Nathaniel Ames