Looks like a pencil eraser on a wall hook below the calendar. (Dave, great job identifying the pincushion!)

The brand on the window sill is Venus Velvet. I was so convinced the object to the left is a pipe, that I searched the internet for Velvet tobacco products for a while before I chanced upon the pencil leads.

[It is indeed a pipe. - Dave]

When we closed our plant after 58 years of operation, I shot 10,000+ photos over 18 months to record its history. Every break room and control room had a bulletin board or whiteboard containing info like this Shorpy photo -- important phone numbers, numbers for pizza, information useful for the workers. These images are a snapshot in time. Below: December 18, 2014, at Sabic Innovative Plastics in Washington, West Virginia.

Just slightly above and to the left of the Railroad Engineer's Special Magnet (used for connecting cars when coupling fails) is what looks like a smoker's tool, with tobacco tamper and see-gar clipper. But what do I know.

And I like it alot. A calendar that comes with a bagel attached. Pretty cool idea back then.

The Timekeeper’s collection of clippings ensured that he didn’t need to be standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, for fine sights to see.

I've been in railroad cabooses since the late 1950's and am mystified by some of the objects mounted on the left side of the wall. What do you do with what looks like drilled steel strapping? Is that the world's smallest coat hook? Is that a pillow sitting on top of the calendar?

[It's a pincushion. With pins. - Dave]

When being promoted to locomotive engineer and then a railroad accident inspector, I was told that coupler knuckles were impervious to damage unless there was a flaw in the casting. But if you pulled out the entire coupler (drawbar) from the underframe by rough handling, it was all on you.

I'm don't think that's the right angle for a caboose pinup.

Note on caboose wall: "Broken knuckle on 'A' end of ...?... caused by moving train before brakes had fully released on rear portion of train." Or something like that. Sounds to me like a good reason to relax with a bowl of Velvet pipe tobacco.