Photo: dornob.com
Train car converted to church. Lots more such churches at dornob.
The artist who tweets @FortPointer clued me in to this Boston Magazine today, which asks what should happen to the old Mass Bay subway cars that are being taken out of service.
Steve Annear reports, “The MBTA is gearing up to sign a contract with a Chinese manufacturing company to procure hundreds of Red and Orange Line train cars so they can replace the current fleet of vehicles that have been traveling down the tracks for decades. …
“According to the T, the train cars—they’re replacing 152 Orange Line vehicles and up to 138 Red Line vehicles—will go up for sale, and the highest bidder can do whatever they want with them.
“Like most transit systems, the MBTA typically sells old cars for scrap to the highest bidder. ‘But we also like to preserve a bit of MBTA history by donating a retired car or two to the Sea Shore Trolley Museum in Maine,’ said T spokesman Joe Pesaturo. …
“ ‘Someone buy four of them and open an Orange Line Deli,’ one person suggested on Facebook.
“Another tossed a different idea into the ring: ‘I’d like to put one in my back [yard] for the ultimate ‘man cave.’
“These ideas might sound far-fetched, but stranger things have happened to retired train cars.” Good examples in the photos and also here.
Photo: io9.com
A Soo Line caboose, built in 1090, turned into a vacation home in 1976 in Pennsylvania.
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