40-year-old Caboose Gets New Life
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Posted: 12:22 AM Mar 14, 2010
40-year-old Caboose Gets New Life
A four-decades old railroad caboose will get a new life as part of an eastern Kentucky tourist attraction.
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CATLETTSBURG, Ky. (AP) - A four-decades old railroad caboose will get a new life as part of an eastern Kentucky tourist attraction.

Officials in Catlettsburg are acquiring, moving and restoring the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad car, built in 1969 and moving it to a new home next to the former C&O Depot, now the Russell E. Compton Civic Center.

Catlettsburg Main Street Director Frank Branham told the Ashland Daily Independent that the project should be complete by Labor day.

Compton acquired the caboose from its former owner CSX Transportation Inc. earlier this year.


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Posted by: mu on Mar 15, 2010 at 02:28 PM

my wife has a 40 year old caboose but i doubt it will make much of a tourist attraction. hahah
Posted by: Anonymous on Mar 14, 2010 at 04:37 AM

Gotta admit was thinking something entirely different from the title of the article than what I got.
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