He especially likes the caboose cupola, he explained, because "they sit up there until the driver tells them something, and then they go on foot to see what is the matter." ...

When it was a working caboose starting in 1951, it carried a brakeman and a conductor. From the cupola they could watch for problems ahead — like smoke from a bad bearing — and radio the engineer.

A century ago, trains chugged through Citrus County carrying passengers, freight and even the U.S. mail. Today, a lone caboose in Inverness stands as a tribute to that bygone era.