The Featherbed Railroad Company Bed and Breakfast Resort

Haunted Caboose
After a crazy summer at the Featherbed Railroad Tony and Peggy took some time away and left the skeleton crew behind. Those bone heads had a great idea when they saw Celebrations, so they scared-up the spirit of Halloween and turned it into a caboose. But you better "look alive" as this caboose is only here through Halloween.

Rather than just using some hauntingly familiar ideas, they boned-up for a test of your patience and created the Haunted CaBOOse.

There have been members of the living who have thought it such a grave situation that we spend so much time with only a ghost of a chance of creating something frightening, but consider the fact that several of our guests actually have reported "seeing things" in the Haunted CaBOOse even as far back as when it was Rosebud.

Indeed, we've had a number of guests ask who the guy was in the striped pajamas whom they've seen at night either walking through our Celebrations caboose room or actually have seen sitting on the bed. While the cabooses on our resort have only been here since the mid 1980s, the resort dates as far back as Jack Carson, Kit Carson's brother, who owned the land in the mid 1800s and grew wine grapes on the property. Indeed the centuries-old trees that make this such a beautiful spot today did so when Jack Carson and his brother Kit wandered the property as well.

Our guess about the ghost is that it may be a former railroad worker, perhaps a conductor or brakeman, who are looking to get their rest aboard the caboose not knowing the calamity that will seal their doom to haunt a railroad car that will one day be a popular tourist destination. The term featherbedding is actually a railroad term that refers to the brakemen whom were put out of a work by the invention of the steam (now air) brake on trains but whose union contract was so strong that they were kept on despite not really having a reason to stay. Maybe our ghost is a permanent featherbedder!

Indeed several guests have checked-out early because they claimed that an earlier railroad worker had done the same, and their proof was that they "saw" this former railroad employee in his full night shirt wandering around the caboose. Maybe it was the fabulous local wine, or maybe they saw something most don't. Either way, a stay in this caboose can give you your own first-hand experience.

Of course if you dare a night in the Haunted caboose you can relax your bones in our two-person Jacuzzi tub followed by a night in our luxurious Downlight featherbed-equipped bed. There is our fabulous home-made breakfast after your night and the truly scary reality that you may have to head back to work. Yikes.

Haunted CaBOOse History
The Haunted CaBOOse started its life as a caboose on the Southern Pacific rail line. Southern Pacific built these cabooses with bay windows instead of a cupola on the top. Since it's one of the first cabooses on the property, many of the gauges, air lines and electrical lines are still in place from its service on the railroad. We've highlighted these fittings in a beautiful wine-colored hue and restored all their copper brackets. That same color extends to the trim along the walls. There is a new climate control system and all-new Jacuzzi tub system.

Haunted Caboose Amenities
The Haunted Caboose includes a cauldron, er, Jacuzzi tub for two. The in-suite bathroom features a toilet and sink and there is a shower head for use with the Jacuzzi tub. All Featherbed cabooses are equipped with a coffee maker, personal refrigerator and television. There is a quaint breakfast nook in the Haunted CaBOOse where you can enjoy your breakfast or some wine you bring in from the local wineries. All of our cabooses feature a queen sized bed with a luxurious Downlite genuine goose down featherbed.  
  
Featherbed Railroad Bed & Breakfast Resort
2870 Lakeshore Boulevard
Nice, CA 95464
PHone: (707) 274-8378
Toll Free: (800) 966-6322

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