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The very first railroad to quit using cabooses was the Florida East Coast, which started running cabooseless trains in 1965! As others have indicated, it was at least 20 years until anyone else did. Apparently Virginia used to have a law that forced the railroads to have cabooses on all freight trains and so there still lots of cabooses there while eslewhere they were disappearing. It was the late 80's here in Canada. CN stopped using cabooses maybe a year before CP did.
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