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Worn and damaged boards on the side of the depot’s Katy caboose are being replaced with cypress. A new paint job will then complete the historic railcar’s refurbishing. Photo by Larry Jackson
Solid cypress boards and fresh yellow paint are giving a bright new face to a caboose at the La Grange MKT Depot Museum.
“Thanks to a grant from Second Chance Emporium, we will be able to tell this caboose’s story for years to come,” said Gale Lincke, a longtime director of the nonprofit museum.
The story began in 1937, when a fleet of woodsheathed cabooses was built in the Denison, Texas,…
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