North Conway, N.H.? John and Nellie Egan are at the end of the line — and that’s where they like it. The semiretired train conductor and his wife spend their summers in a remodeled caboose parked on a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An iconic, colorful and functional railroad car, absent for decades, can be seen again on a short-line railroad in Northeast Pennsylvania. It’s the caboose. For 150 years, rail fans and casual ...

Railroad buffs have aged. As youths, they worked on trains, rode them, or simply felt charmed by the iron horse. If you visit the California Railroad Museum in Sacramento and enjoy a nostalgic few ...

My job as a conductor on the Cog Railway probably provided the most interesting fodder for this column. I like this next tale that comes from that time. In the old days, a passenger train had several ...

If you're after an unforgettable and one-of-a-kind stay, Airbnb has millions of properties available to book all around the world. The most unique Airbnb in Iowa, according to Travel & Leisure, is a ...

Jim Dotzenrod and his daughter Danielle transformed a 1973 train caboose into an Airbnb. It has the original conductor's chairs and railing, and new features like a handmade outdoor deck. The caboose, ...