I have always been intrigued by the sight of a train engine pulling a long string of freight cars bound for one of the many industrial customers in our area. There was a time when the trains traveling ...

Jim Dotzenrod bought a train caboose in 2016. The year before, Jim, 65, from Decorah, Iowa, had completely renovated a silo on his property and turned it into an Airbnb. According to his daughter ...

Classic steam engines – like the ones that grace the rails of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad – are an iconic image of the history of the American West. But there is an unsung hero on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jim Dotzenrod and his daughter Danielle transformed a 1973 train caboose into an Airbnb. It has the original conductor's chairs ...

Willamette Heritage Center wasn’t in the market for a caboose. A faded red one graced the grounds of the museum at one time, a gift from the Southern Pacific Transportation Company in 1975. It was ...

The caboose, once an American icon, has all but vanished from the nation's railways. But you can't keep a good icon down. Cabooses are turning up in the darndest places across the state. Some of their ...

Rosa Salter Rodriguez Feb 14, 2021 Feb 14, 2021 Updated Jun 3, 2022 Cabooses generally haven't been seen as the last car of freight trains for many years. The crew members they used to house and the ...

A little piece of Americana that is missing today from the modern landscape may be found at Weaver Park in Old Hilliard. The train caboose, typically painted red and often depicted with a lantern ...

NORGE — About 70 years ago, children and adults often eagerly awaited the red caboose at the end of a freight train pulled by its smoke-belching steam engine. By the 1980s, electrified engines meant ...

MANCHESTER — The Manchester Model Railroad Association and other train and local history buffs are looking to add a caboose to the Manchester Railroad Memorial Park — but not just any caboose. The ...