From left, Lohn Lasher, left, and Tim Bauer, right, owners of Cellar Works Brewing, flank Chris Ziegler, president of the Butler-Freeport Community Trail. The trail is the new owner of the caboose shown in the photo. It will be moved from its longtime location at Cellar Works Brewing on South Pike Road to the trail's Cabot Trailhead.

The sale of the caboose at Cellar Works Brewing, formerly Cooper Station, is on track to be sold to the Butler-Freeport Community Trail.

Chris Ziegler, president of the trail board, said the 19th Century caboose will be moved from its longtime home on South Pike Road to the Cabot Trailhead off Winfield Road about 4 miles away.

She said the caboose will be placed beside a 16-foot by 32-foot pavilion recently added at that trailhead.

Ziegler has visions for the caboose that include a visitors center and a stop along the trail where cyclists, walkers and runners can get a soft drink and ice cream, although the final caboose use has yet to be determined.

“It's a rail trail and it makes sense because it's a historic community asset,” Ziegler said of the trail buying the caboose.

When Ziegler heard that the owners of Cellar Works Brewing, the owner of the former Cooper Station restaurant, did not plan to use a railroad theme in their brewery, she began wondering if the trail could acquire the caboose.

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