A Winnipeg Beach landmark underwent a much-needed facelift to keep it chugging into the future.
An aging Canadian Pacific Railway caboose that has been displayed in the community since the early ’80s got a fresh coat of paint over the weekend.
It’s just the beginning of the remodel.
“There’s still some work to be done on the inside, which we’ll do in the spring, because we do have some plans for the caboose going forward,” Winnipeg Beach’s tourism, development, and community engagement manager Peter Holfeuer said in an interview.
Volunteers are pictured restoring Winnipeg Beach’s caboose in an undated photo. (Peter Holfeuer/Town of Winnipeg Beach)
According to the Winnipeg Beach Historical Society, the historic wooden end cupola caboose was built in 1942. It rolled into town some 40 years later at the request of former Deputy Mayor Al McLean.
CP Rail donated the locomotive to honour the community’s roots with the company, which built the town’s first …