The caboose was last used in 1982 by the Terminal Railroad/TRRA in Granite City, Illinois, in the greater St. Louis metro ...

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 ...

No one seems to know who painted the words “Please Save This Caboose,” on the side of old No. 582, but Norman and Elayne Planer of Upper Nazareth Township have decided to become the family who will do ...

To the delight of some Bowie-area train enthusiasts, the city’s Railroad Museum is receiving a newly restored caboose car that will help preserve the city’s extensive railway history, and unlike the ...

Penny is big, nearly 10 feet wide, more than 13 feet tall, weighing in at 20 tons. She is not a Greyhound bus, or a giant blue whale, each of which weighs about the same. Penny, short for Pennsylvania ...

The Wilmington & Western Railroad has reopened after months of restoration, offering scenic rides through Red Clay Valley.

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 ...

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 ...

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 days, smoke can be seen streaming from the ...

Next stop? A one-way ticket to your very own caboose camp in Maine—complete with a fascinating history that is sure to serve as superb campfire fodder. Whether you are looking for a unique hideaway to ...