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Happy Endings
Caboose Cafe

Logo for Happy Endings Caboose, a coffee house in Canon City

The Happy Endings Caboose Cafe is OPEN DAILY 8 a.m – 4 p.m.!

The Caboose Cafe offers your favorite espresso drinks, locally roasted drip coffee, incredible breakfast sandwiches, crepes, ice cream, burgers, sandwiches, beer, wine, cocktails and more. The Happy Endings Caboose Cafe is proud to make everything fresh, from scratch. Looking for a snack after your ride on the Royal Gorge Route Railroad? Stop on by your favorite Canon City coffee house!

Location

Happy Endings Caboose Cafe
403 Water Street Blvd.
Canon City, Colorado 81212

Contact

719.276.4023

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Happy Endings Caboose History

Crepe from a popular Canon City coffee house

The Happy Endings Caboose Cafe wasn’t always used as a daily destination for espresso, sandwiches, crepes, and gelato. Originally built in 1924 as Caboose 1006 by the Mount Vernon Car Manufacturing Company for the Great Western Railway (GW Railway), it was a working railcar with side doors to load and unload baggage and could accommodate up to ten passengers. It was used until the 1970s for hauling passengers on freight trains.

In 1983, Al and Lynn Dunton purchased Caboose 1006 at auction after the original owner, GW Sugar Company, declared bankruptcy. It was used for three years on tourist trains on the GW Railway. In 1999, Caboose 1006 was sold to the Royal Gorge Route Railroad. It found a new home in 2018, when a crane transported it to its current location on 3rd Street between downtown Cañon City and the Arkansas River.

In 2019, the Great Western Caboose 1006 was beautifully restored and converted into a distinctive Canon City coffee house, where visitors and locals enjoy their own “happy ending” to this railroad tale with a cup of gelato, a delicious panini, freshly roasted espresso, or coffee.

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ROYAL GORGE ROUTE RAILROAD

Adventure awaits

Hop aboard the Royal Gorge Route Railroad and experience a one-of-a-kind adventure through the Royal Gorge and Colorado Rockies. Departing daily from the Santa Fe Depot in Canon City.

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