New use for old railcars and rail buildings --- Post your Google images here.

That's cool. Do you know what they use it for? It's such a waste sticking it in alley though.

I did some more looking around and found tracks all over the place down there embedded in the streets. I got suspicious when I went up the street from the restaurant, with the restaurant on the left, and saw streets coming in at a funny angle and buildings running diagonally. That little hint lead to more looking around and along Utah Street, Alameda and Townsend, there were sidings and tracks in the streets. I didn't realize how close this is to Mission. Down there are some neat things too to see. :)

John
 
Not certain what it's used for. Maybe one day I'll e-mail my sister (who lives in San Francisco) and see if she knows anything about it.
 
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Apex, NC passenger station formerly used by the Durham & Southern and Seaboard Air Line Railroads. It's now the Apex Chamber of Commerce.

http://goo.gl/maps/dVNlZ

Former Central Railroad of New Jersey terminal in Jersey City, Now used for the ferries to the statue of liberty. I went here once and it's a very neat place.

http://goo.gl/maps/3Gq4t

Former Raleigh and Gaston Railroad Union Station in Raleigh NC. Now houses a business.
 
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It's been gone for a while now, but this CTA 4000 series car was a "dining room" at the Crystal Lake, IL McDonald's for a while.
http://www.hopetunnel.org/subway/cta/051120/mc4000_2.jpg

This was a joint North Shore/CTA station at Dempster Street in Skokie, IL...
http://www.chicago-l.org/stations/images/Skokie/dempster30.jpg

Here is the former North Shore station in Kenosha, WI. Now a pre-school, it was an Italian restaurant for years (with an old Milwaukee Road car that was unfortunately scrapped in 2003)
http://headstart.kusd.edu/wp-conten...d.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/P8070116.jpg

Here's Briergate in Highland Park, IL (it's an AC/plumbing company or something similar). The Beverly Shores station on the South Shore Line is the same design.
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5310/5685358001_1dd33a5efa_z.jpg

Finally, the old CTA Linden station in Wilmette, IL is now a bank.
http://www.prairieschooltraveler.com/html/il/wilmette/linden_cta.jpg

All of these stations were designed by architect Arthur Gerber.
 
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Trolley Barn for the Haverhill and Amesbury Transit Company on East Main Street, Merrimac, MA. The tracks went up and down Main Street and diagonally to Broad Street where it ran down to River Road and off to Newburyport and finally Plum Island. The company was once part of the Newburyport and Haverhill.


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This has been renovated now into the town's fire and police station. When I lived here, the building was derelict and in rather poor shape. It still had old-fashioned street lamps, the kind with green metal hoods, and other signs of trolley use even though it hadn't been used in decades before.
 
Southern passenger car Crescent City, one of four built specifically for Southern's Crescent Limited, and is the only surviving of the four. This picture is taken from Morris Street, and the building next to the car is the former Southern freight depot, now the Dalton Visitors Center and a good place to watch both Norfolk Southern and CSX trains traveling between Atlanta, Georgia and Chattanooga, Tennessee. The green parking place is for electric vehicles only, and has a battery charger there for use.

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.768652,-84.967047,3a,75y,34.43h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1suePPLFkJgiBE56AbMQC1QQ!2e0
 
Nashville Union Station: Now a luxury hotel
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And of course, the biggest example of reusing a station, a bunch of rail cars, and steam locomotive, and even a trolley car
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Latvia:

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Zemgale station building - now a church

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Limbaži station building now is a bus station. Perhaps the only station building in the country to actually get in a better shape than it was before the closure of the railway line. Here the passenger services ceased in 1999 while the last freight train ran in 2001. Since then the building serves as a bus station while the old railway line has been turned into a city street.

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Ķeipene station now serves as a cinematography museum. Actually the museum was there already since 2004. The railway along with the station closed only in 2009. This is the only part of the railway which wasn't dismantled - for esthetical reasons. There are many art installations around the station. Such as these tunnel-like structures and the metal lighthouse that can be seen in the picture.
 
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Former U. T. C. streetcar turned house in Elwood, Indiana. It was most likely converted in the early to mid 1930's. The configuration is viewed better from satellite view.

I also found a couple of images from the inside of the house:

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