But it’s hard to fault the model-train fans who showed up February 25 for the grand opening of Ruble’s resurrected Caboose location in Lakewood. Lines of them were strung around the building ...

Leah Goodman, 10, and her mother Carrie, right, look at a detailed train and town diorama on display at Caboose Hobbies on August 14, 2016 in Denver, Colorado. The store, which has been in Denver ...

Image from a youtube video by Jim H. LAKEWOOD — Certainly, a store for train enthusiasts named Caboose should have a genuine, 27-ton caboose parked in a lot outside the business. And so it does.

For nearly 150 years in the railroad industry, cabooses were used as a type of traveling break room and office for the train crew. The Colorado Model Railroad Museum’s caboose celebrated 100 years on ...

Caboose Hobbies is considered the world’s largest model train store. Lou Schornack has been shopping there for 15 years. “I was somewhat stunned,” he said. “This is pretty sad.

Max da Veiga, 5, points to train moving down the tracks south of Lincolnway as his father, Jonathon, holds him after watching a circa-1913 Union Pacific caboose arrive at the Cheyenne Ice and ...