A prominent caboose could roll its way into Lehighton by spring.

On a 6-0 vote, borough council approved the requests for the caboose project for in-kind services and use of land.

Bambi Elsasser, Lehighton Main Street Manager, said the caboose has been delivered to Jim Thorpe and is currently located just above Route 903.

Elsasser said the restoration work is being done as part of a joint effort between the Carbon Chamber & Economic Development Corp. and the Lehighton Downtown Partnership.

She said a company has been contacted to move it, and that it should be delivered by early spring, at which point it will be located behind the trailhead off Sgt. Stanley Hoffman Boulevard.

Kathy Henderson, director of economic development, Carbon Chamber and Economic Development Corporation, has obtained funding through the Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau.

In April, council accepted the caboose being donated from the Reading and Northern Railroad to the borough.

Henderson said at that time that the purpose of the initiative is to establish a welcome center that will not only greet people into the area, but also educate students on the role Lehighton played in transportation back in the day.

She added she believes it would be neat to have a facade constructed on the side of the pavilion that’s there now that faces the street to make it look like a reproduction of what the passenger station used to look like.