Pardon me boy, it that the Catlettsburg Caboose?

When a photograph of this caboose appeared recently in our local newspaper, it understandably caught my attention. An individual purchased this train car for the community of Catlettsburg, Kentucky and a group of volunteers spent countless hours restoring it to this sparking condition. I had never heard of Catlettsburg, and when the map indicated that it was in far eastern Kentucky, I discounted the chance that we would see it anytime soon. Then, Sandy’s business trip to Syracuse came up and our off-track sightseeing brought us right past it. So on the last day of our vacation we crossed the Ohio River from West Virginia into Kentucky and quickly found the newly refurbished 1969 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway caboose next to the Catlettsburg Depot.