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The cranes guide the caboose to a section of track where it will be on display in the Park Forest Rail Fan Park in Matteson, Illinois, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Crews from Cranemasters keep a close eye on the clearance of the wheels from the tracks as they lift a 1953 caboose from the CN railroad siding into the Park Forest Rail Fan Park in Matteson, Illinois, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Crews from Cranemasters reach the bottom of the hill with the 1953 caboose from the CN railroad siding into the Park Forest Rail Fan Park in Matteson, Illinois, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
People look on as the cranes carry the caboose from the tracks out to the cutout pathway down the hill to Park Forest Rail Fan Park in Matteson, Illinois, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
The crane on the right leads the way out of the cutout pathway down the hill to Park Forest Rail Fan Park in Matteson, Illinois, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Crews from Cranemasters lift a 1953 caboose from the CN railroad siding into the Park Forest Rail Fan Park in Matteson, Illinois, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
A man looks on near the pathway cutout where two cranes will carry a 1953 caboose down a hill at the CN railroad siding near the Park Forest Rail Fan Park in Matteson, Illinois, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Crews from Cranemasters position a crane hook to lift a 1953 caboose off the tracks at the CN railroad siding near the Park Forest Rail Fan Park in Matteson, Illinois, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Crews from Cranemasters hook chains and lifting straps to a 1953 caboose at the CN railroad siding near the Park Forest Rail Fan Park in Matteson, Illinois, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
The crane on the right leads the way out to the cutout pathway down the hill to Park Forest Rail Fan Park in Matteson, Illinois, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
The crane on the right leads the way out to the cutout pathway down the hill to Park Forest Rail Fan Park in Matteson, Illinois, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Crews from Cranemasters lower the caboose onto the section of track where it will remain on display in the Park Forest Rail Fan Park in Matteson, Illinois, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
The cranes slowy roll their way along the side of the hill to the Park Forest Rail Fan Park in Matteson, Illinois, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
People look on as the cranes carry the caboose from the tracks down the hill to Park Forest Rail Fan Park in Matteson, Illinois, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
The crane on the right leads the way out pf the cutout pathway down the hill to Park Forest Rail Fan Park in Matteson, Illinois, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Crews from Cranemasters lower the caboose onto the section of track where it will remain on display in the Park Forest Rail Fan Park in Matteson, Illinois, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
John Joyce, Park Forest director of parks and recreation, looks on as the antique caboose is placed into the Park Forest Rail Fan Park in Matteson, Illinois, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Onlookers begin to leave as the crews from Cranemasters set the caboose in place at the Park Forest Rail Fan Park in Matteson, Illinois, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Sam Yacono (left), of Steger, and John Joyce, Park Forest director of parks and recreation, talk about the antique caboose after it was set in place at the Park Forest Rail Fan Park in Matteson, Illinois, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
CN mechanical supervisor Mac Horton (right) looks on as the first visitors to the caboose -- Alex Lileikis (left), 5, of Park Forest, and Aiden Mick, 3, of Park Forest -- get a close look at the caboose at the Park Forest Rail Fan Park in Matteson, Illinois, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
CN mechanical supervisor Mac Horton lifts the first visitor -- Alex Lileikis, 5, of Park Forest -- on to the caboose at the Park Forest Rail Fan Park in Matteson, Illinois, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
All eyes were on the bright reddish-orange caboose Tuesday as it made its final trip from Joliet to the Matteson rail yard, pulled by Engine 4610. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway caboose No. 531 — built in December 1953 — must have passed through the …