EE Broadway Local Posted July 1, 2011 Share #1 Posted July 1, 2011 This is just for fun: If you could purchase a New York City subway car (past or present) and make it your home, which subway car model would you pick and how would you design the inside (kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, maybe a living room)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dman1455 Posted July 1, 2011 Share #2 Posted July 1, 2011 This is just for fun: If you could purchase a New York City subway car (past or present) and make it your home, which subway car model would you pick and how would you design the inside (kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, maybe a living room)? You would have to be a major foamer to do that.... But if I had too I guess a R68 cause it's 75ft which means more room and they are fat. But I don't see putting all my stuff into 75ft of train! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EE Broadway Local Posted July 1, 2011 Author Share #3 Posted July 1, 2011 Well, I agree a subway car is, kind of, narrow, but, in a way, it's actually similiar to a single wide mobile home (one I lived in was twelve feet wide by sixty feet long and made o corugated metal), which is what I'm thinking of here. You would have to be a major foamer to do that.... But if I had too I guess a R68 cause it's 75ft which means more room and they are fat. But I don't see putting all my stuff into 75ft of train! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoTimer Posted July 1, 2011 Share #4 Posted July 1, 2011 http://xfinitytv.comcast.net/blogs/2011/tv-news/narrowest-home-in-n.y.-for-sale-for-4.3-million/ There's one the width of an IND/BMT subway car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R160 Posted July 1, 2011 Share #5 Posted July 1, 2011 That's insane^ I'd have to go with either a Redbird, R68, or R110. I would include the R32 in that list, but I don't want my A/C dying in the middle of summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoTimer Posted July 2, 2011 Share #6 Posted July 2, 2011 That's insane^ I'd have to go with either a Redbird, R68, or R110. I would include the R32 in that list, but I don't want my A/C dying in the middle of summer. The R32 HVAC is too noisy anyways. That 110 was a good one (110B of course) That might be something to think about down the road for the R68's (gutting them and setting them up as small homes), selling them and putting them upstate or something for low income housing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgor Posted July 2, 2011 Share #7 Posted July 2, 2011 No... just no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dman1455 Posted July 2, 2011 Share #8 Posted July 2, 2011 The R32 HVAC is too noisy anyways. That 110 was a good one (110B of course) That might be something to think about down the road for the R68's (gutting them and setting them up as small homes), selling them and putting them upstate or something for low income housing. The R68 is the new trailer park house! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadcruiser1 Posted July 2, 2011 Share #9 Posted July 2, 2011 A long time ago I read this book in which a person converted a trolley car into their house. Sure why not it can happen. If you can change a trolley car into a house, or a museum, or a restaurant I don't see why it's so hard with an old subway car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2 Train Master Posted July 2, 2011 Share #10 Posted July 2, 2011 LOL at this thread I will choose the R-142A quiet HVACs and the design is unique I would use it as a personal electronic(gaming) room or like a hang out room nothing to get too comfy in though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadcruiser1 Posted July 2, 2011 Share #11 Posted July 2, 2011 I did make an R160 my home, because I like the interior colors, and nothing else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traildriver Posted July 2, 2011 Share #12 Posted July 2, 2011 Why bother to purchase one? Every night hundreds of folks make subway cars their home for the price of a Metrocard, or ability to jump a turnstile.... Seriously, though...I remember as a youth spending the night in an old subway or el car that were given to some Scout camp and converted to camp cabins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quill Depot Posted July 2, 2011 Share #13 Posted July 2, 2011 Why bother to purchase one?Every night hundreds of folks make subway cars their home for the price of a Metrocard, or ability to jump a turnstile.... Seriously, though...I remember as a youth spending the night in an old subway or el car that were given to some Scout camp and converted to camp cabins. Well, it would be YOURS. And mine R142A Cab Car Couch at no Cab End Entire 1 section of seats ripped out for bed One side of 2 section section ripped out for TV and Couch. Like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
engineerboy6561 Posted July 2, 2011 Share #14 Posted July 2, 2011 Why bother to purchase one?Every night hundreds of folks make subway cars their home for the price of a Metrocard, or ability to jump a turnstile....B) Seriously, though...I remember as a youth spending the night in an old subway or el car that were given to some Scout camp and converted to camp cabins. That must have been fun... As for subway cars, I'm not really sure. If I wanted a full-time home from it I'd probably use an R44 or R68 (when it becomes available) body shell and strip it completely. I'd wind up needing to do a complete rework of the interior and probably mods for the frame; a house only needs one or two doors, not eight, and I'd need the space in the car to handle water tanks, sewer holding tanks, hot water tanks, etc. It would probably also need heavy mods to the chassis to handle a diesel engine because third rail only exists on a very small part of the national rail network and I don't think they'd let me roam around the B division as I chose... It sounds like one hell of a project, but I think you'd be better off working from one of these: (Image is NOT mine; obtained from the Wikimedia commons) As far as the actual design would go, I'd rip out the back wall of the cab and create a small lounge up front leading to the first pair of doors. The actual living area would come out of the space starting where the first line of doors used to be and going back to the second line of doors with overhead cabinetry, an island counter, and an inline kitchen setup taking up about ten feet of wallspace and the other eight for a couch on one side and a stereo, TV, and laptop desk on the other. The rest of the space would be split into two 78" by 15' bedrooms on one side with a hallway on the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traildriver Posted July 2, 2011 Share #15 Posted July 2, 2011 That must have been fun... As for subway cars, I'm not really sure. If I wanted a full-time home from it I'd probably use an R44 or R68 (when it becomes available) body shell and strip it completely. I'd wind up needing to do a complete rework of the interior and probably mods for the frame; a house only needs one or two doors, not eight, and I'd need the space in the car to handle water tanks, sewer holding tanks, hot water tanks, etc. It would probably also need heavy mods to the chassis to handle a diesel engine because third rail only exists on a very small part of the national rail network and I don't think they'd let me roam around the B division as I chose... It sounds like one hell of a project, but I think you'd be better off working from one of these: (Image is NOT mine; obtained from the Wikimedia commons) As far as the actual design would go, I'd rip out the back wall of the cab and create a small lounge up front leading to the first pair of doors. The actual living area would come out of the space starting where the first line of doors used to be and going back to the second line of doors with overhead cabinetry, an island counter, and an inline kitchen setup taking up about ten feet of wallspace and the other eight for a couch on one side and a stereo, TV, and laptop desk on the other. The rest of the space would be split into two 78" by 15' bedrooms on one side with a hallway on the other. That Budd Rail Diesel Car would be great if you could just operate it wherever you wanted to, but railroads would never allow that. The closest you could come would be to own a private rail car and pay Amtrak and sometimes freight railroads to haul it around for you. See http://www.aaprco.com/ for details.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
105th St KK QJ JJ J Posted July 2, 2011 Share #16 Posted July 2, 2011 Someone in England turned an R-6 into a cafeteria. while someone in FLA used an R-6 as a shed lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoTimer Posted July 2, 2011 Share #17 Posted July 2, 2011 Well railcars was always popular for dining going back to its glory days in the 1800s. Scores have complained about the once luxe dining on Amtrak and how far it has fallen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FamousNYLover Posted July 2, 2011 Share #18 Posted July 2, 2011 If I asked Extreme Makeover Home Edition to make my subway dreamhouse, I would do like this. My photos of Stardust Restaurant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MainStreetBound7 Posted July 2, 2011 Share #19 Posted July 2, 2011 R62A, use the half cab as a shower, with the look in window Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R188 7857 Posted July 2, 2011 Share #20 Posted July 2, 2011 R142A : Full-Width Cab - Shower No Cab End - Bed Left side of train : T.V. Dinner table Kitchen Bathroom Right side of train : Couch Computer Special Comfortable Chair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SI Subway Posted July 3, 2011 Share #21 Posted July 3, 2011 I would not make a subway car my home. Ever. But if I had to choose, I'd say an R68. There would need to be a bathroom though, and that's why I would prefer to live in an Amtrak coach. B) I could turn one into a restaurant, though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamen Rider Posted July 3, 2011 Share #22 Posted July 3, 2011 Please, watch the Nazi Banksters Crimes Ripple Effect at http://jforjustice.co.uk/banksters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amtrak7 Posted July 3, 2011 Share #23 Posted July 3, 2011 A subway car as a business would probably draw a lot of customers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Concourse Posted July 3, 2011 Share #24 Posted July 3, 2011 You would have to be a major foamer to do that.... But if I had too I guess a R68 cause it's 75ft which means more room and they are fat. But I don't see putting all my stuff into 75ft of train! Well, think of it like a trialer home. I'm sure some people can fit some of their stuff in it. The cabs being the bathroom/'kitchen'. That said, it's better to just move in to an actual house. Lets just think for two seconds, what would be the first thought that would cross the mind of a normal person think if you told them "I live in a subway car." I'll tell you. It's not "Oh he must love trains" or "oh, he must be really cool". It's "Oh my God, he must be a homeless person." Lmao! Very true! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MTA Bus Posted July 4, 2011 Share #25 Posted July 4, 2011 An R46. There fat, got plently of room and are one of my favorites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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