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18-Foot Caboose Style Tiny House – Before & After

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Are you a railroad and train enthusiast? You’ll love this darling caboose-inspired tiny house! In the below video, take a look inside the build to see how space-efficient ideas were brought to life in the completed caboose tiny house. Friesian Woodcrafters built it for the family-run sister business of Tiny … Read more

Arthur, A Charming Caboose on Wheels

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The Latest Tiny House at Tiny Digs, a Portland Hotel Few things have captured America’s imagination like the long and romantic history of the railroad and now in modern day, the tiny house on wheels. Tiny Digs’ new rental home on wheels, Arthur, is a perfect culmination of these novelties. … Read more

Little Green Caboose

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My dad Don Edmondson, was an artist/woodworker. He built three full size gypsy caravans in his lifetime. In the early 1990’s he built a caboose looking trailer in Maui. He put it in the jungle and used it as an art studio/sleeping place for the next year. He drew quite … Read more

All Aboard: Tiny Houses Take to the Rails

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“…what thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.” ~ Marianne Wiggins I remember the first few lines as if I read them just this morning. “One warm night four children stood … Read more

Hal’s Caboose

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completed caboose

by Hal McClendon Some of you may have seen the article of the little cabin on wheels Kent published on this blog May 29th, 2013. Thanks to all who commented on the post. Anyways, that post drew interest from some folks in Portland, Oregon that own and operate according to … Read more

Marcia’s Caboose on HGTV

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Admirers of Marcia’s Soo Line Caboose, which was featured in 2011 on the Tiny House Blog, will be able to get more of their caboose fix at the end of the month. Marcia’s tiny house, built in 1909, will be featured on HGTV’s show “You Live in What?” on Sunday, … Read more

Osmosis Day Spa Caboose

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For this Christmas Eve, I thought I would do a post on a couple of classic, red cabooses that have been made into the offices of the beautiful Osmosis Day Spa in Freestone, California. Osmosis is located in the tiny hamlet between Santa Rosa and Bodega Bay and features a … Read more

Marcia’s Soo Line Caboose

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Marcia Weber lives full-time in a Soo Line train caboose that was built in 1909. She purchased the caboose with her husband at the Tunerville Station in Whippany, New Jersey in 1975 from an ad in the Wall Street Journal that simply said “wooden cabooses for sale.”

The Caboose

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During the heyday of railroad travel, a train caboose was usually reserved for the railroad crew and given playful names such as “monkey wagon” or “dog house”. These days, with train travel less preferred, the caboose is in danger of disappearing. However, train enthusiasts will purchase a hardy, little caboose for a city landmark, a museum or even a tiny house.

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Courtesy of Red Caboose Getaway B&B
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Courtesy of Red Caboose Getaway B&B

You can purchase a caboose from several brokers or even government liquidation services. Most railroads stopped using them around the 1980s, and quite a few went to scrap, so the prices of the ones that are left have increased.

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