A lady I work with has sold her house and now wants to sell the train caboose that is on the property, which is in Timberlake, NC. She wants $4000.00, you haul. There is also a tiny bit of track that it sits on which goes with the caboose if you want it; probably not more than a few hundred feet, if that. There is a wood stove, if I remember rightly, and my guess is that aside from a conversation piece it would make a good starter home, or permanent residence for a homesteader who has more need than room or cash. Call 336-364-7497 and ask for Gerda.

-- Soni (thomkilroy@hotmail.com), October 30, 2000

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Thanks for the info. I'll pass it on to our local historical society. They may be interested for their depot museum.

-- Jay Blair (jayblair678@yahoo.com), October 31, 2000.

I looked at buying one several years ago, to use as a guest house, but the darn thing was solid steel, and would have been one cold puppy in the winter. No insulation of any kind!

JOJ

-- jumpoffjoe (jumpoff@echoweb.net), October 31, 2000.

A friend of mine lives in a box car. It was a refrigerated box car, so it is very well insulated. Only thing slightly weird about it is the meat hooks on a track in the ceiling!

-- txcountrygirl (nancyk@icsi.net), October 31, 2000.

Good luck to her trying to get something out of it.One town I lived in looked into getting one ,free,for a tourism office,and concluded the cost to move it was too much.Perhaps some one has experience with this?

-- sharon wt (wildflower@ekyol.com), November 05, 2000.