{"id":47711,"date":"2022-06-14T23:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T21:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=47711"},"modified":"2024-01-10T23:12:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T22:12:23","slug":"the-curious-history-of-an-abandoned-railway-caboose-in-the-middle-of-a-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/14\/the-curious-history-of-an-abandoned-railway-caboose-in-the-middle-of-a-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"The curious history of an abandoned railway caboose in the middle of a forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many children grew up in Spain watching the series \"Verano azul\" and the curious image of Chanquete's boat, located in the middle of an orchard.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/24\/church-hill-a-railway-tunnel-in-which-two-men-and-a-train-are-buried\/\">Church Hill: A railway tunnel in which two men and a train are buried<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/19\/an-atypical-graveyard-of-50-classic-cars-and-a-plane-in-the-middle-of-a-forest-in-germany\/\">An atypical graveyard of 50 classic cars and a plane in the middle of a forest in Germany<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Seeing an old fishing boat so far from its natural environment is something that has always fascinated me. And something similar happens with the story that I bring you today. In this case it is not a ship, but <strong>a railway caboose from the 1940s that is in the middle of a forest in Canada<\/strong>, far from any railway. Three months ago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/AbandonedUrbexCanada\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Abandoned Urbex Canada<\/a> published this interesting video about it:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ybX8iTAG_0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How did this truck get to that forest? Abandoned Urbex Canada points out that the owner of that wooded lot was a huge fan of trains.<strong> In the 1980s, his sons bought him this lavish caboose for $20,000 as a birthday present.<\/strong> What a gift! His sons <strong>had some tracks installed and hired two large cranes to put it in that place<\/strong>, which must not have been easy, since it is on top of a hill.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52146952718_7f4a2d71bd_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Abandoned Urbex Canada notes that trees probably had to be cut down to complete that operation, but <strong>now trees have grown back around the van.<\/strong> Removing it from there today would be a very expensive operation. As you can see in the video,<strong> despite its age, the van is in very good condition, a sign that it was well cared for.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52145911357_27c22dbaec_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, <strong>the owner of that plot passed away in 2004, and his ashes were apparently scattered there<\/strong>, since that van was his favorite haunt. An endearing story that explains something as unusual and fascinating as finding a wagon on top of a hill and in the middle of a forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many children grew up in Spain watching the series \u00abVerano azul\u00bb and the curious image of Chanquete&#8217;s boat, located in the middle of an orchard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,16882,20878],"tags":[1479],"class_list":["post-47711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-forests-and-mountains","category-trains","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}