Make it into your home. Don
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Seems like just sitting there it would be too hot or too cold. Are these old cars insulated or is it something the "new" owner needs to do. I like it.
I guess if it is on railroad property, you would have to be an employee of that railroad so as not to be trespassing.
Dennis
Very nice. I once stayed in a motel in Wilkes-Barre, PA where all the rooms were made from old heavyweight passenger cars. I believe there were two rooms to a car. They were all done up like a turn of the century French bordello in heavy maroon velvet furniture, draperies, etc. A few years later I heard they went out of business.
Now that is what I call a good idea.
2 observations, Where is the train room? and it looks more like an office than a home. to many plastic waiting chairs.
I always dream of buying one of the current Amtrak Superliners when they retire them. For some reason I love staying in a Roomette and could see moving one onto my property, connecting it to a power supply and live there!!!! Plus I'd have lots of guest rooms!!!
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I spoke with a fella that put 8 or 10 cabooses on his property. Each one was done up as a very nice/upscale cabin, in a private wooded setting. I mean, these were nice cabins. He was barely keeping his shirt on the business. Seems the novelty just isn't there for the "non-railroad nuts".
Is that a lithograph press in the bottom photo far left? This would make a nice studio.
My beautiful and charming wife, Beverly, and I celebrated our 30th anniversary in the caboose we had on May 6, 1984. Thanks to Red Caboose Motel staffers for tracking down Caboose 5-F.
Believe it or not, honeymooning here was her idea!
One of the resident cats
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OK isn't that a 5,6 ,2.3 or something,,?Only on the Empire Buiilder? Rarer car in real life?
During late 40s and early 50s, I remember several families that lived in former boxcars converted into homes. One family owned a strip of land across from our farm, and lived in a converted boxcar. They had 4 girls and 1 boy. Was fixed very nicely, back then plumbing was outside.
What would a caboose be like without a resident cat? Gotta have one(at least)!Originally Posted by ReadingFan:
My beautiful and charming wife, Beverly, and I celebrated our 30th anniversary in the caboose we had on May 6, 1984. Thanks to Red Caboose Motel staffers for tracking down Caboose 5-F.
Believe it or not, honeymooning here was her idea!
One of the resident cats
When I was a little kid my mother would take me to the library once a week or so and I would read just about anything. I suppose I was eight or so at the time. I remember reading a book called "The Boxcar Children" about a family that lived in a boxcar. Can't remember anything else about it, but I think it was actually from the Depression era and was a popular children's book at the time.
Originally Posted by josef:
During late 40s and early 50s, I remember several families that lived in former boxcars converted into homes. One family owned a strip of land across from our farm, and lived in a converted boxcar. They had 4 girls and 1 boy. Was fixed very nicely, back then plumbing was outside.
Originally Posted by josef:
During late 40s and early 50s, I remember several families that lived in former boxcars converted into homes. One family owned a strip of land across from our farm, and lived in a converted boxcar. They had 4 girls and 1 boy. Was fixed very nicely, back then plumbing was outside.
What's old is new again...well, almost. Substitute "shipping container" for "boxcar".
---PCJ
Originally Posted by AMCDave:
I always dream of buying one of the current Amtrak Superliners when they retire them. For some reason I love staying in a Roomette and could see moving one onto my property, connecting it to a power supply and live there!!!! Plus I'd have lots of guest rooms!!!
I'm with Dave on this one. When I can afford the high price of a roomette or full size room with bath, I enjoy the experience of relaxing in my own space looking out the large window as the Amtrak trains rolls along the tracks of Oregon and Washington. I bring my service dog Lady on these excursions and she enjoys the trip also. We usually have our meals in the room.
Steve, Lady and Tex
The military uses containers a lot as temporary living spaces, as do security contractors. I inspected a U.S. narcotics assistance base in Pucallpa, Peru one time and the American advisors were living in a row of conexes inside a big warehouse. They were actually pretty comfortable - at least compared to what else was available in Pucallpa, a small town in the upper Amazon basin.
Originally Posted by RailRide:
Originally Posted by josef:
During late 40s and early 50s, I remember several families that lived in former boxcars converted into homes. One family owned a strip of land across from our farm, and lived in a converted boxcar. They had 4 girls and 1 boy. Was fixed very nicely, back then plumbing was outside.
What's old is new again...well, almost. Substitute "shipping container" for "boxcar".
---PCJ
Superliners are the best...waaaay better than those weirded out Viewliners. If ya like heritage type stuff, which I sure do, then the pickings get slimmer all the time. But then you could do the Canadian to Vancouver !
I was up to the Red Caboose Motel last summer, didn't stay there as we were staying in Reading PA at a motel near the Berkshire Mall.
I ate at the Red Caboose Diner one time, the floor shakes as if you traveling on the rails.
We did the Strasburg RR ride and bought a PA Dutch shoofly pie and ate it at the motel after dinner.
Just a side note, there is a Henry Flagler private rail car here in Palm Beach FL near the Flagler museum. It's just like ReadingFan describes, all wood inside and beautiful chandelier inside and private bathroom.
Lee Fritz
Where do you park it? The "Beebe and Clegg" private car era is gone, isn't it? Out in the country not far there is a small farm with a couple of boxcars, a caboose, signals, and other large railroad appliances around it, in a grove of trees, unrestored, some
covered with plastic tarps. I have stayed in the Caboose Motel twice, first for the
experience, and the second time because I couldn't find a closer motel. It's kind of
a "been there, done that" thing.
Superliners are the best...waaaay better than those weirded out Viewliners. If ya like heritage type stuff, which I sure do, then the pickings get slimmer all the time. ;But then you could do the Canadian to Vancouver !
I almost rode the Canadian when I was in Vancover, BC on business; but I secured a seat on the Rocky Mountaineer at the last minute. I choose the RM because the dome seats on VIA are 1st come 1st serve.
On an earlier trip I rode the Lake Shore Limited; NY to Chicago in a roomette. A few months later I was at the Sacremento Rail museum and the same type equipment was on display.
I almost rode the Canadian when I was in Vancover, BC on business; but I secured a seat on the Rocky Mountaineer at the last minute. I choose the RM because the dome seats on VIA are 1st come 1st serve.
On an earlier trip I rode the Lake Shore Limited; NY to Chicago in a roomette. A few months later I was at the Sacremento Rail museum and the same type equipment was on display.
