Challenge legal...train.

I missed the most obvious use. Turn it into a building then set up your model railroad inside it!

Park it in the mall?

RexSeven wrote: You could turn it into a dwelling. Some people actually make old caboose cars their home. Then there is this retired F45 locomotive that has been turned into hotel rooms:

Just imagine an entire hotel/motel (traintel?) made up of different train parts. You could use passenger cars, freight cars, maybe coal (if you put a fake roof on it) and turn the liquid car into the pool

In reply to Junkyard_Dog:

That's awesome.

In reply to RexSeven:

That's in eastern Oregon somewhere right? I think I've been there and I have photos.

In reply to Petrolburner:

It's in Essex, MT, in a place called the Izaak Walton Inn.

My wife and I stayed here:

http://www.trainstation.ca/

when we were roadtripping in Nova Scotia a couple of years ago. It was great. Good food too.

@Junkyard Dog, I unsuccessfully tried to find "The Silver Streak" recently. Good flick.

In reply to Keith Tanner:

I guess I'm the only one who wonders what your Craigslist seach criteria was to find that.

I can't take credit, a friend passed it along.

Ya know, that would probably work really well here. Drive up coffee huts are everywhere in Fairbanks.

Fwiw it's probably an old engine from the Alaska Railroad. There's a guy who lives in an old DC8 up here so the train isn't that surprising.

drummerfromdefleopard wrote: In reply to SyntheticBlinkerFluid: skin over a sea crate to create man cave epicness. Gut it and open a coffee shop in it. Bonus points for getting an old steam locomotive as well and converting the boiler into housing the coffee roaster and roasting beans in house. That would make for the coolest coffee house ever.

Ran when parked?

Appleseed wrote: 1900? Um...no. F7s debut in 1949.

Well, I guess technically 1950 is the mid 1900s......

From the listing: "I want this out of my yard".

Boy, I'd so want that IN my yard!

But, I suppose it's like geodesic domes and airplane hangers and pig farms. Only a special few can properly appreciate them.

I sent the Cl link to my brother, who works on AK. He responded back this morning , that some of his coworkers are from the area. The local lore is that that locomotive was swept up in the 1964 tsunami, and that's were it landed

Seriously, how much do we estimate it would take to ship this to the connected US? And then to restore it?

I'm thinking about launching a crowd funding initiative.

i want it, would make an awesome guest room or on-site getaway from/for the kids.

HappyAndy wrote: I sent the Cl link to my brother, who works on AK. He responded back this morning , that some of his coworkers are from the area. The local lore is that that locomotive was swept up in the 1964 tsunami, and that's were it landed

As the ad said, "It has been moved before". It just didn't say how

HappyAndy wrote: I sent the Cl link to my brother, who works on AK. He responded back this morning , that some of his coworkers are from the area. The local lore is that that locomotive was swept up in the 1964 tsunami, and that's were it landed

so that was how it was moved!

BradLTL wrote: Seriously, how much do we estimate it would take to ship this to the connected US? And then to restore it? I'm thinking about launching a crowd funding initiative.

Sending it whole or in pieces?

When we were kids we used to stay at a place in Strasbourg PA called The Red Caboose that was all cabooses.

Junkyard_Dog wrote: Park it in the mall?

That's the train station.

Watch that movie carefully and you'll see a nice Jag XKE and a brand new yellow X1/9!

In reply to Gearheadotaku:

If I did that I'd need life-size cutouts of Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder to put in the windows.

Junkyard_Dog wrote: Park it in the mall?

Kind of looks like it's grinning.

HappyAndy wrote: I sent the Cl link to my brother, who works on AK. He responded back this morning , that some of his coworkers are from the area. The local lore is that that locomotive was swept up in the 1964 tsunami, and that's were it landed

51 years ago today.

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/05/1964-alaskas-good-friday-earthquake/100746/

This is obviously a different locomotive, but it was moved three blocks by the tsunami.