Something unusual was attached to the Norfolk Southern Corp. train headed out of Portlock Yard on a recent Friday morning. The boxy rail car hanging on the end of the train showed patches of red paint ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

There are no rooms here, only cabooses -- and not just standard cabooses (if you remember what those are). These have themes, like the Casablanca caboose with a piano, neon sign, trench coat and ...

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 ...

The average age of the model-train enthusiast is typically over fifty. He’s part of a legion, mainly male, of WWII-era kids and early boomers whose childhood dream it was to unwrap a Lionel train set ...

Long before glamping was a trend and tiny living was so prevalent, someone had the great idea of renovating an old caboose and turning it into a guest cottage. That caboose is still around today and ...