East Boston caboose could soon be dishing up ice cream

Boston Restaurant Talk reports a couple of East Boston residents are on track to turn the blue caboose at the start of the Mary Ellen Welch Greenway (formerly the East Boston Greenway) into a stand selling ice cream and coffee called, naturally, the Blue Caboose.

Lizeth Kelley and Troy Retzer plan to stock the caboose with ice cream from Crescent Ridge. Retzer reports they're hoping to open in early July.

The city solicited bids for vendors willing to do something with the old Conrail caboose - an homage to the days when a freight line ran right to the East Boston waterfront - in 2021.