Last year when we were at the Illinois Railroad Museum, I wanted to ride in the caboose. We just ran out of time. I saw that the Minnesota Transportation Museum had a caboose ride. It was a very short caboose ride. I wanted something more.
When we were at the Monticello Railroad Museum, we got out to check out the depot in downtown Monticello. As we were walking back to board the train, I noticed it had a caboose. I told the hubby we could ride in the caboose and we decided to ride in the caboose for the rest of the train ride.
There were a few other people in the caboose, a dad with a couple of kids and an older gentleman. We initially just sat and enjoyed the ride.
When the dad sat down, I got up and took a few pictures. He mentioned we could actually stand in the doorway and enjoy the view.
What an experience. We were actually going backwards at the time so we were the first ones to see everything. I few times I had to steady my balance and eventually I held on to the ladder.
Even the engineers didn't really bother us. They were just chilling as well.
Eventually we sat back down to enjoy the ride back to the station.
I was able to, without dropping the phone, take some great shots as we were coming in the the station from the end of the train.
Now that I crossed riding in a caboose off the bucket list, I need to work up the guts to ride in the cupula of the caboose. Those are the seats at the top of the caboose accessed by tiny little ladders on either side of the seats. It might be difficult as kids usually clamor for these seats.
If you ever have a desire to ride in a caboose, I would recommend either the Monticello Railroad Museum or the Illinois Railroad Museum for your caboose ride. Both are great train museums.
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