Loco Motif

On our way to Missouri last summer we stopped north of Evansville to see a caboose in a photographer’s backyard. Hers was very original looking and she referred us to another home nearby that offered a really nicely painted customized caboose. The owners had renovated their rolling stock into a “getaway” room handsomely decorated in a railroad motif. One item that attracted the boy’s attention was a poster illustrating various important historical locomotives. Later in the summer, while visiting a railroad museum in Pennsylvania, we spotted the same poster in their gift shop. The boys received this poster for Christmas and became equally excited by the vivid photographs. It now hangs in what is becoming our train room.