[allthecybers]

We’ve had the tiny houses, shipping container homes, then the van life or schoolie (school bus as a home) trend, al of which were clever interpretations on what a home actually is.

I’m sure some enterprising YouTuber/lifestyle blogger could get us started on the private train car home era. I’m here for it.

[jesuscript]

The housing market might turn the world into Snowpiercer:

It takes place aboard the Snowpiercer train as it travels a globe-encircling track, carrying the last remnants of humanity

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowpiercer

[gruez]

>The housing market might turn the world into Snowpiercer

I don't get it. Houses become so expensive that the last remnants of humanity has to live on a train? Isn't this a "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded" situation?

[TigeriusKirk]

I bet MrBeast could pull off a "I paid a guy $100,000 to spend a month in a private train car" or something.

[denkmoon]

Wouldn't even need to pay me to do it. The only thing stopping me is a lack of a private train car and presumably the significant expense of running it :(

[jesuscript]

There’s gotta be a Groupon for this. So long as anyone doesn’t have a major criminal record, I’m game.

[techdragon]

So its a privately owned and operated rail car, that lots of people can group together with and pay the total cost of by individually paying a smaller part of it, like some sort of ... publicly accessible private transportation ... I think you might be on to something!

[vagrantJin]

> publicly accessible private transportation

Uber for trains.

There, I said it.

[jesuscript]

Jesus you’re right, I never knew I was a socialist.

[rongopo]

Wait! All old first local trains started like this.

[public_defender]

Why would a criminal record be relevant at all?

Other than prior convictions for train robbery, I guess.

[csande17]

I, for one, would rather not be murdered on the Orient Express.

[aliqot]

Bring some extra soups, what's the harm? Criminals have the best bedtime stories.

[_carbyau_]

To be fair, the Orient Express victim really did piss off a few people. And I don't know if many of them had any criminal records beforehand either.

[selimthegrim]

Seeing as they apparently made up fake terrain and mountains around Vinkovci in the movie I probably be worried about fake weather killing me.

[ajaimk]

Amtrak does this for free - check out the Writer's Residency Program

[kposehn]

Ok, you're subscriber number one then. Anyone else? I'm completely serious. Private Varnish (ie: private railcars) have always been something I love. It would be a hoot to live in one with my fam for a year (if I can convince them).

[techdragon]

I'm all on this for actually helping physically do this (even for loose definitions of physical, like run a website haha, but I'd imagine someone on HN restoring a train carriage could manage a Wix/SquareSpace/etc site by themselves)... I've wanted to build a steam engine since I was a kid, I thought it would be amazing to design a stupidly modern steam engine and break the world records with it, and this, while this is not a steam engine, it is honestly the closest I'll probably get to any of that dream given how impractical it is ...

[Symbiote]

People are building steam locomotives, they're are several projects in Britain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_locomotives_of_the_21st_...

[techdragon]

That sort of backs up my point though, the majority (all but one!) of the projects are rebuilding traditional steam engines for heritage/historical reasons. The one advanced/modern project was abandoned for lack of interest and done by a private company.

Also I’m in Western Australia… One of the two Australian projects on that page (based in Victoria) no longer has a functioning web page, which is not a good sign given the cost of a website compared to rent for a workshop big enough for a steam engine. The other project is making slow progress over the last decade building a replica of a late 19th century design which while cool and I hope they eventually finish it, doesn’t stoke the fires of my imagination enough to uproot my entire life to move closer so I can physically help make it happen.

[ehnto]

Plenty of hobby clubs build wooden boats for fun as a group, why not railcars!