@fritzoids@jgrg Ringling Brothers circus used to operate two full length trains, which transported both all the circus sets (and animals) and housed most of the staff and performers. They had relationships with all the major freight railroads to move and store the train to all their venues. When they shut down a few years ago, I looked into buying one of the dorm cars. Less expensive than I expected, but there was no way you could get the freight railroads to move and store a single car.
@[email protected] @[email protected] One of the problems is that unlike a car, a plane, or a boat, you can’t move your own train on someone else’s tracks yourself. They have to haul it for you, with crews familiar with and qualified on the specific sections of track you’re moving on. And passenger cars and freight cars don’t mix, which means basically that you have to hire a dedicated locomotive and crew just to move your car. If they’re even willing to do it.
@[email protected] @[email protected] All this means (in the US) that you’re in practice limited to going where Amtrak goes, hooked up to their scheduled trains, and you probably can’t occupy the car when it reaches its destination in some rail yard somewhere.
@fritzoids @jgrg Ringling Brothers circus used to operate two full length trains, which transported both all the circus sets (and animals) and housed most of the staff and performers. They had relationships with all the major freight railroads to move and store the train to all their venues. When they shut down a few years ago, I looked into buying one of the dorm cars. Less expensive than I expected, but there was no way you could get the freight railroads to move and store a single car.
@[email protected] @[email protected] One of the problems is that unlike a car, a plane, or a boat, you can’t move your own train on someone else’s tracks yourself. They have to haul it for you, with crews familiar with and qualified on the specific sections of track you’re moving on. And passenger cars and freight cars don’t mix, which means basically that you have to hire a dedicated locomotive and crew just to move your car. If they’re even willing to do it.
@[email protected] @[email protected] All this means (in the US) that you’re in practice limited to going where Amtrak goes, hooked up to their scheduled trains, and you probably can’t occupy the car when it reaches its destination in some rail yard somewhere.