You dreamed big with us to save the caboose – 44,800 lbs big, in fact. And our town will never forget the day we made that century-old caboose fly, saving it from being demolished:
At 1155 Pine Street, we’re recreating a two-car section of the historic Colorado & Southern Railway that tracked through Louisville a century ago. We’re placing The Louisville Caboose, built in 1915, and a genuine C&S Boxcar, built in 1898, on historic tracks from the early 1900s. Not only that, but we’re placing them almost exactly along the path of the original tracks that went through Louisville.
The new railway will also be situated next to the “Miners’ Mansion” – a quaint, historic Miners’ Cabin built in the early 1900s from parts of a decommissioned boxcar.
We hope that all of this together – this scene right out of the coal-mining, train-tracking Louisville from a century past – will bring smiles to the people of Louisville and visitors for years to come.
Will you join us in this crazy adventure and help us make something unforgettable at the East Gateway to our little downtown in Louisville?
Thank you so much,
-The Ramos Family
This is a general update video on the project, explaining what we’re hoping to accomplish together at 1155 Pine and the vision behind it.
See the original campaign video from when we saved The Louisville Caboose
We couldn’t have dreamed of saving the caboose without the help of our community. Here’s a video showing our town hard at work to save the ‘boose!
If you build it, they will come. Right?! We rescued the caboose. We saved up and purchased the property at the East Gateway to Louisville. We laid the railbed. We craned in the 'Boose and its new Boxcar friend, bringing them back downtown. And now...it's time to ask you to join this wild adventure.
Restore The RailwayMade with love in Louisville, Colorado by The Ramos Family
