CPR Caboose and Jail House
A feature attraction our our museum is our perfectly preserved caboose. Families with children particularly enjoy walking through our “yellow” caboose, a car no longer seen on the back of a row of railcars. Visitors can explore inside the Jail House.
Recovery
​Over the course of 2 years, volunteers from the railway society worked on preservation efforts to restore a 1975 CP caboose (CP 434526). The caboose was donated to the Castlegar Station Museum in 2001 as a millennium project from Canadian Pacific. In 2023, volunteers began stripping the paint and filling rust holes on the exterior walls with fiberglass and in some areas new exterior galvanized sheets were added. They completed the exterior of the caboose with funding from a few community grants and a Canadian Pacific Railway (CPKC) donation. The inside interior also got new plywood and wood framing inside replaced and painted to the original paint scheme. Big thanks to the volunteers of the local railway society, to Paul and Tracy of the Nakusp Rail Society for generously lending out there caboose stencil kit, to Markin Investments Ltd for the donation of the paint and sheet metal for the Restoration Project and to Oglows Paints of Castlegar for mixing the specialized industrial paint.
Jail House
On the grounds of the Museum is Castlegar's first Jail House. It was used from 1934 - 1959.
Originally serving as a tiny detention lockup, it was moved onto a new foundation in 1992 and restored. The Jail House serves as an example of early, humble infrastructure in the region.
