Brake van and Caboose

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Caboose and brake van are semantically related. (American) In some cases you can use "Caboose" instead a noun phrase "Brake van".

Caboose noun - The part of the body upon which someone sits.

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Brake van and caboose are semantically related. You can use "Brake van" instead a noun "Caboose".

Any loss of pressure in the brake line or command authority in an electric control system will automatically apply the brakes on any set of wagons built after the 1870s, and most heavily-laden trains had a brake van/caboose at the rear before that.

Source: Just Train Wrong
The Fat Controller is referred to by his Sunday name "Sir Topham Hatt", trucks are dubbed as freight cars, guard is called conductor, and brake van is called caboose.

Source: Western Animation / Thomas the Tank Engine
Tear Off Your Face: This is how one of the Scottish Twins actually kills the Spiteful Brakevan (a bullying caboose) at the end of the episode "Brake Van", by ramming into him face-on, smashing the caboose to bits, and tearing off his face.

Source: Western Animation / Thomas the Tank Engine

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