Post by calzephyr on Feb 17, 2018 7:00:57 GMT -8
I received this email today
Has anyone on our forum visited the new store?
I have not been to Denver for several years but wanted to see this store when I get in Denver. Larry
Watch A PIECE OF History BE Installed!
Stop by Caboose at 10800 W. Alameda Avenue in Lakewood this Saturday afternoon, February 17th, to see a piece of history installed along the West Alameda Corridor.
Caboose owner Kevin Ruble has purchased an historic, full-size railroad caboose to be placed on a just-laid section of track in the store parking lot. The car, Rio Grande caboose number 01416, is a piece of local history, having been built in 1941 at Burnham Shops in Denver, just north of 8th Avenue. The caboose last saw service in Grand Junction before being purchased by the Denver & New Orleans Railroad club in Old Town Parker, where it was located for over twenty years.
The car is almost forty feet long and weighs 29 tons, requiring a heavy duty crane and equipment haulers for the move. It will begin to make its slow, 30-mile move to Lakewood at 6 a.m. Saturday morning, and should take about ten hours from start to installation. Local media, railfans and community members are invited to the store Saturday afternoon to see it placed in its permanent home.
“It’s not every day that you get to see a caboose ambling down the highway, not to mention flying into position here at its new home at Caboose in its role as a historic landmark,” said Ruble.
This iconic new addition comes to Caboose as it prepares for its one-year anniversary at its new location in Lakewood, as well as the 80th year of Caboose and its Denver retail icon predecessors. Caboose leads and supports the worldwide tribe of train enthusiasts in the pursuit of their passion for trains.
