Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 22—On the site of an old junkyard near the city's Hub District, a couple of serial entrepreneurs is turning old train ...

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 ...

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 ...

If folks can turn ambulances or army trucks into welcoming mobile homes, couldn’t they do the same with old train cars? Yes, they can. Instead of abandoning these cabooses with historical value, some ...

A piece of railroad history that was preserved by the Smithsonian has found a home with the Stewartstown Railroad, where it will be lovingly restored after decades sitting at a museum. What makes the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A piece of history rolled its way into Boyertown on Friday, Jan. 17, to join the Colebrookdale Railroad Secret Valley Line. The caboose, built in Altoona, Pa. in 1941, has been transported by Norfolk ...

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 Blue Caboose, an ice cream and coffee shop inside an old train car, recently opened in East Boston. You'll want to see it ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Jim Dotzenrod purchased this train caboose from a scrapyard in 2016. Jim Dotzenrod had driven by a row ...