LOUISVILLE, Colo. — Every morning, Travis Ramos walks into the past and saves it.
He works in Louisville restoring vintage Volkswagen buses built between 1968 and 1979. You could say he lives for the past. It’s not a bus-sized passion — it’s more caboose-sized.
“This is it,” he said as he walked across the street to a piece of land with a vintage caboose and boxcar on the corner of Pine Street and Courtesy Road.
For five years, this was Travis’ vision. He put thousands of hours into restoring the 1913 caboose, finding a Colorado and Southern boxcar, laying track in the exact spot where the railway rolled through town a century ago — all to welcome visitors to the gateway to Louisville…