Good Medicine Aboard My Own CABOOSE

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November/December 1990
By Adolf Hungry Wolf 
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Denlinger has rebuilt the insides of his cars to include roomy beds, showers and toilets, air-conditioning and even color televisions mounted inside potbellied stoves. A few of the cars are divided in half to make two single units. Country-style meals are served "down, the track" aboard a lavishly furnished Victorian dining car; another dining car serves milk shakes and ice cream. Don's motel rooms are often booked up months in advance. Of course, it helps that they're parked alongside the Strasburg Rail Road's main line, whose steam-powered trains carry year-round tourist traffic.

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Caboose, bunk car, reefer or coach—if properly cared for, any one of them can make a good companion for which you will find endless uses. We have used ours for reading books, writing them and shipping them out; one car is a gym for the boys, another their bicycle repair shop and storage place. A few winters ago we even held a traditional tribal ceremony aboard a caboose; the visiting elder who conducted it for us commented on the old car's spirit during his prayers. Anyone who owns an old railroad car would know just what he meant.

Adolf Hungry Wolf and his family—wife, Beverly, and children Wolf, Okan, Star and Iniskim—live outside Skookumchuck, British Columbia. Together they have written more than 4o books on native culture, outdoor life and railroad history.

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