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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...