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All aboard the chew-chew train! Retired octogenarian railroad worker builds locomotive for his rescued stray dogs
Eugene Bostick, 80, has built a train out of fiberglass barrels mounted on wheels and linked to lawnmower to take his nine strays on rides
Each car is numbered and equipped with pillows for four-legged riders' comfort
Twice a week, Bostick revs up his mower and takes his pooches for an hour-long spin around his 11-acre farm and nearby golf course

You could say Eugene Bostick's golden years have gone to the dogs, but he couldn't be happier about it.
Bostick, a retired Union Pacific railroad employee living on a farm in Fort Worth with his wife and brother, has built a unique train to transport stray dogs he has rescued over the years.
The cars in Bostick’s makeshift locomotive are made of blue 55-gallon fiberglass barrels mounted on wheels and hooked up to a John Deer riding lawnmower.
Texas brothers take in strays for adventures on dog train

Dogs' best friend: Eugene Bostick, 80, a retired railroad worker from Texas, has built a special train out of fiberglass barrels mounted on wheels to take his nine rescued strays on bi-weekly rides
Dogs' best friend: Eugene Bostick, 80, a retired railroad worker from Texas, has built a special train out of fiberglass barrels mounted on wheels to take his nine rescued strays on bi-weekly rides
Twice a week, Bostick revs up his mower and takes his nine pooches for an hour-long spin around his 11-acre farm and the nearby Sycamore Golf Course, located a short drive from downtown Fort Worth.
‘Oh, they just love it,' Corky Bostick, Euegne’s 87-year-old brother told The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. ‘Every time he takes the covers off, they start jumping and barking, ready for the ride.’
Before building the train for his furry friends about 15 years ago, Bostick told NBC DFW he had been transporting them in a trailer hooked up to a tractor, but as more and more strays began showing up on his doorstop, he realized there was no enough room in the camper for everyone.
The 80-year-old got the idea to put together a proper train after seeing a friend haul rocks in barrels connected to a tractor, he told The Dodo.
As a veteran railroad man, Mr Bostick takes his conductor duties seriously: each car is numbered and has assigned seating for all of his fluffy passengers.

To make the pups, some of whom are long in the tooth, feel more comfortable on the weekly outings, Bostick has equipped each train compartment with pillows.
There is also a wooden ramp available to help those pooches who are having trouble boarding the train.
The troublemakers of the bunch are a brother and sister appropriately named Bonnie and Clyde. The pair, which always ride in the last car, have been known to jump off the train, so Bostick ties them with leashes.
Besides dogs, Bostick and his older brother feed more than 30 different animals that find their way onto their sprawling property, including raccoons, rabbits, geese and coyotes.
Bostick and his dog train have become a viral sensation recently, in large part thanks to Facebook user Tiffany Johnson who snapped a photo of the man and his pups and posted it online last week.
As of Thursday afternoon. the picture of the conductor and his four-legged riders seated in barrel cars have been shared more than 57,000 times.
Johnson have since launched a GoFundMe account to help Bostick care for his animals.
A video uploaded on YouTube showing Bostick and his traveling menagerie has drawn more than a million views so far.