Sleep inside a real railroad caboose in Lake Placid, Florida, a peaceful and bookable stay with cozy interiors, quiet nights, ...

This train is going nowhere fast physically — but online, it’s off the rails in popularity. Inspired by a row of cabooses he repeatedly drove past in 2016, Iowa-based carpenter Jim Dotzenrod made up ...

It has the original conductor's chairs and railing, and new features like a handmade outdoor deck. The caboose, in Decorah, Iowa, is available for reservations. Jim Dotzenrod purchased this train ...

CLINTON COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — Just near Interstate 80 in Lock Haven sits the old Castanea Railroad station. The outside features two train cabooses, a water tower, and a passenger station. However, one ...

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 ...

The country’s first transcontinental railroad began in the mid-1800s with a single man and his obsession. Civil engineer Theodore Judah devised a way to connect the train lines on the West Coast and ...

Imagine your perfect vacation in the Smokies. Now, imagine that perfect vacation in a train caboose surrounded by roaming American buffalo (also known as bison!). Sold? Us too. At Buffalo Creek ...

The first thing visible were the red and blue flashing lights of a police vehicle jumping up from behind the crest of a small hill. Close behind, slowly making its way down State Street just outside ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Certainly, a store for train enthusiasts named Caboose should have a genuine, 27-ton caboose parked in a lot outside the business. And so it does. On cold ...

Here we are in 2026, and the start of the year. What is appropriate? I remember when the big newspapers spent many pages on the year’s old news. Well, this column is old news every month, so for fun, ...