Neat kitbashing idea - in real life.

J

JCitron

Trainzing since 12-2003
Here are some shots of a restaurant that I pass by every day on my way to Lowell from Haverhill.

They used an old rail passenger car as a shed or part of their kitchen. Perhaps at one time this was a diner, made from a passenger car or trolley, and then expanded on over the years. If you look to the right of the complex, you can see the old car complete with the clerestory roof.

Front:
http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?o...txsp&alt=-10.754168&z=21&h=178.13214&pid=5874

Rear:
http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?o...xsp&alt=-10.754168&z=21&h=350.710564&pid=5874

Left side facing due east:
http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?o...txs2&alt=-10.754168&z=20&h=91.760552&pid=5874

They have sided over the windows and painted the structure to match the gray-blue of the rest of the Asian restaurant. The Lin Garden has pretty good food, or it did about 25 years ago when I at there last.

I'm thinking of kitbashing something like this together myself for my route. I'd thought I'd share the structure with everyone because it's so cool.

John
 
There are actually two carriages there. The other one is at the other side. I wonder if anybody else has any shots like these. It would be nice to see what use old railway carriages have been used for.
 
I remember seeing a coach used as a rented home for tourists on that Michael Portellos railway journey's series on the BBC, shame I can't remember which episode.
 
Old coach/wagon uses!

At Cressing Green Near Braintree, Essex UK, there is or was a resturaunt using an old Wooden ex Southern Railways PULMAN car. Near Great Totham North, Nr Maldon, Essex, there were 3 old 6 Wheel coaches being used as horse fodder stores. And at the East Anglian Railway Musuem, Chappel & Wakes Colne Station, Colchester, Essex UK, there is, at the moment, an old 4 Wheel coach body being used as a 'Curio Shop'!;)
 
John, all I get on your original post links is a blank page with "Welcome to Bing" on it; nothing else.

Bill
 
There used to be (and still may be) several old carriages in Norfolk, England, which had been converted to homes - I remember frequently passing one near the main road between Roughton and Cromer, and there are a couple of pages on the subject in Paul Atterbury's Along Lost Lines including a good photo of one (probably using two bodies) in South Wootton, near King's Lynn - it would make an interesting model - perhaps I'll have a go ...

Ray
 
My Internet connection is too slow to look at the pics, but railways carriages used for other purposes are pretty common around here. There's a Boxcar in the yard next door used as a storage shed. It still has the couplers attached.

There was one on our wharf acting as a coffee shop.

There are a few in Freshwater used as reception rooms.
http://www.ksr.com.au/freshwater/overview/

There are a few on the main country platform in Brisbane used as something?

Also, have you seen the banner on the Trainz Resources Directory? (Click signature below) Dermmy uses it on his East Kentucky route.
 
Johnk said:
My Internet connection is too slow to look at the pics, but railways carriages used for other purposes are pretty common around here. There's a Boxcar in the yard next door used as a storage shed. It still has the couplers attached.

There was one on our wharf acting as a coffee shop.

There are a few in Freshwater used as reception rooms.
http://www.ksr.com.au/freshwater/overview/

There are a few on the main country platform in Brisbane used as something?

Also, have you seen the banner on the Trainz Resources Directory? (Click signature below) Dermmy uses it on his East Kentucky route.
Click to expand...

Hi John,

I sure recognize the image in your banner. I've used the old baggage car on my route as a storage building.

The use of boxcars as storage around here isn't too common except, for what seems to be, at junk yards. As you travel through the Midwest into Colorado across the Great Plains, there are plenty. Some of the cars still have the old reporting marks on them and the railroad company logos on them. It was interesting to see old reefers complete with roof hatches, but they still had couplers sitting on blocks in the back yards of various houses and farms along the road.

When we got outside of Limon, CO., there were old passenger stations turned into chicken coops and barns. One of them still had the semaphore signal attached. The building was moved intact to the farm location because there was no sign anywhere of tracks, not even a grade.

John
 
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