Caboose 999726 was built circa 1937 for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. BNSF donated it to the Grants-Cibola County Chamber of Commerce, and in 2015 the Chamber transferred it to the City of Grants, after which it was moved to this site and renovated. Grants and railroads have been closely linked since the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad arrived in 1882. The Grant brothers, Angus, John, and Lewis, held the contract to build the railroad through Los Alamitos, the first settlement in the area in 1872. For several years the railroad ended there until camps were established to continue grading west, with more than 4000 men and more than 2000 mules working the line through Grants. The area became known as Grant's Camp, then Grant's Station, and eventually Grant's; the apostrophe was removed in 1937, and it has been Grants ever since. The Grant brothers maintained a telegraph at the end of the line for company business, and the office soon became a source of local and national news. The railroad built stock pens for sheep and cattle so local ranchers could ship livestock east. During the heyday of railroads, when Grants was a stop with a depot, Hollywood actors, big name bands, and famous athletes stopped there. In the 1920s the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad became the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe Railroad, mainly known as the Santa Fe Railroad. In 1994 the ATSF merged with Burlington Northern to become the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad. Approximately 85 trains pass through Grants in a 24 hour period.