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>> MARK CATION: I was working at a political event.
Some friends of mine were attending that political event,
and they were Ron and Deanna Keims.
And, uh, I told them ... they asked me how things were at the historical society
and I told them great if I could get a caboose.
And they said well we have a caboose. And I said you do.
And then they laughed and I thought they were pulling my leg.
And they weren't pulling my leg because I drove over to their house
and, by golly, they had a caboose.
And, uh, Ron said if you can talk my wife into you can have it.
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>>DEANNA: We had house movers move it here
and we can't remember if it was in the fall of '82
or whether it was in the spring of '83,
but since that time we carpeted it. We paneled it.
We put furniture in it. It served as a bathhouse.
It served as a place for extra company to sleep.
It served as a place for the grandkids, and the nieces and the nephews.
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>>RON: We didn't get to see it move in.
>>RON OFFSCREEN: We just saw the pictures. So seeing it move out is our first time
to see something. So that's kind of how it came to be.
And, It's been good. It's been good.
But the time has come, you know, to to move on.
>>DEANNA OFFSCREEN: It's been a great experience.
>>DEANNA: It really has and we're glad that the city of Ottawa
can have it for the museum and we'll get to go down there and see it.
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>>CATION: This will add tourism dollars to the community.
To Franklin County. To Ottawa.
And of course it just adds to the Depot to have a, a, uh, caboose right there.
And it's always been an awesome project.
Move that Caboose has been wonderful with the community.
And everybody's very supportive and it's been awesome.