The motel in 1996 when the cabooses were still red
The Red Caboose Motel (originally named the Red Caboose Lodge) is a 48-room train motel in the Amish country near Ronks, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,[2] where guests stay in railroad cabooses.[3] The motel consists of over three dozen cabooses and other railroad cars, such as dining cars that serve as a restaurant. It was developed and opened in 1970 by Donald M. Denlinger, who started with 19 surplus cabooses purchased at auction from the Penn Central Railroad.[4][5] The expanded and renovated property has also hosted railroad-themed events and concerts and dances in its barn.
The motel is in an area with other railroad attractions including the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania and the National Toy Train Museum. The ticket counter of the Strasburg Rail Road, an almost two-hundred-year-old heritage railway,[6] is 0.25 miles (0.40 km) away, and its tracks run past the motel.[7] The motel has been described as a landmark and roadside attraction.[8][9][10] It was listed in Guinness World Records for having the largest collection of privately owned cabooses in the world in 1984.[11][12] The cabooses were initially painted a traditional railroad shade of red, hence the name, but were later changed so that each car displayed the livery of a different North American railroad.
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