Man builds ‘dog train’ to take all of his adopted dogs on adventures

Eugene Bostick is not your typical train conductor.

After retiring 15 years ago, Bostick built his very own train. Now, he spends his days taking rescued stray dogs out for fun rides around the neighbourhood.

“Whenever they hear me hooking the tractor up to it, they get so excited,” Bostick, 80, told The Dodo. “They all come running and jump in on their own. They’re ready to go.”

Bostick and his brother, Corky, have a horse barn and live on a dead-end street where “people sometimes come by and dump dogs out here, leave them to starve,” Bostick told The Dodo.

Bostick started to take care of the dogs by feeding them, taking them to the vet and made a place for them to live.

One day, Bostick noticed a guy with a tractor who had carts attached at the back in order to pull rocks. That idea inspired him to build the dog train, The Dodo reports.

“It started out with my tractor. I had a little trailer and I put four or five dogs in there and took them riding. Then more started to show up,” Bostick told NBC5.

Bostick, with the help from his brother, expanded the train and took plastic barrels, cut holes in them, put wheels under each one and tied them together.

Now, once or twice a week, Bostick and the nine dogs set out on their adventure around town and along the way attract some attention from locals.

But for Bostick it’s all about the dogs: “The dogs have a great time. They just really enjoy it,” he said.