The story so far
In the summer of 2025 we found a retired Louisville & Nashville caboose and asked a slightly ridiculous question: what if it could ride again — not on the main line, but as the coziest little home in the Brown County woods? A crane, a stretch of real track, and a lot of weekends later, it sits on five quiet acres beside our pond, waiting on its second life.
We’re restoring the caboose inside and out — cupola included — and building a connected addition with a proper bedroom and bath, so you get all the mid-century character with none of the mid-century discomfort.
Why we’re doing this
We’re the Northard family. We found this caboose sitting weathered on a siding, climbed aboard, and fell for her on the spot. Now we’re giving her a second life on our five acres in Brown County — building the kind of place we’d want to take our own kids: part history lesson, part hideaway. We’re doing much of the work ourselves, and we’re documenting all of it.
— The Northards
