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Ultimate Getaway For A Maine Train Lover? Staying In A Caboose

Ultimate Getaway For A Maine Train Lover? Staying In A Caboose According to Only In Your State, and the Airbnb listing for the property, visitors to Payson Hill Farm in Knox, Maine can spend the night in a real caboose! According to the Airbnb listing, the caboose, known as 616R, was built in 1917.  It served the Central Maine Railroad for 75 years before being retired in 1992.  It is 40 feet long, ways 22 tons, and now sits on its own set of tracks. For those who don’t know, the caboose was traditionally the last car of every freight train.  They were used as offices and sleeping quarters for the train crews.  However, occasionally, non-crew would ride in the caboose.  In fact, according to this story, President Abraham Lincoln was a fan of riding in the cabooses of the trains on which he rode.

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