You never know what you'll run across. I found this http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog/category/Caboose+Project+and+Other+Trains (http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog/category/Caboose+Project+and+Other+Trains) reading a work related blog. My daughters want me to get a caboose to put with my milemarkers in the back yard, but I don't think I could get my wife to agree to it.
ba
Woodworking is my other hobby. So building something like this for my 3 year old to climb all over is very tempting. He loves trains and he'd have a blast with this thing.
http://shop2.aol.ca/shop/product--catId_1001981__locale_en__cbaId_5__productId_2344713.html
At the point that he grew out of it, I could donate it to a daycare or a park.
Steve