There's actually numerous small regional freight railways, again. They're hungry for gear and bodging together all sorts of antiques to make stuff run, I gather.
The private collectors of rail stock still exist, but they're getting less common.
The weight is actually easy to deal with: you put the car on a section of rail. This spreads the load over a wide area just as happens when they're in use.
> Locomotive engine must be disabled per a state grant funding agreement.
What a dumb requirement. It's like the cash-for-clunkers program requiring the engines to be destroyed.
The service life of a locomotive is effectively infinite - even after their useful freight days are done, they usually get refitted and sent to the developing world, or converted into a fixed power generator.
A locomotive doesn't make a good cafe. You'd want a car with big windows at least. A Caltrain passenger car might work, but even then, kind of iffy.
A locomotive might be nice in a museum or as an art piece at a playground, or for scrap value.
There's actually numerous small regional freight railways, again. They're hungry for gear and bodging together all sorts of antiques to make stuff run, I gather.
The private collectors of rail stock still exist, but they're getting less common.
The weight is actually easy to deal with: you put the car on a section of rail. This spreads the load over a wide area just as happens when they're in use.
> Locomotive engine must be disabled per a state grant funding agreement.
What a dumb requirement. It's like the cash-for-clunkers program requiring the engines to be destroyed.
The service life of a locomotive is effectively infinite - even after their useful freight days are done, they usually get refitted and sent to the developing world, or converted into a fixed power generator.
Crash into a nuclear waste container, of course https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/operation-smash-hit/
Sell it for scrap and use the money to travel.
130 tons is a hefty millstone indeed.
With enough land and disposable income you could build a 1:1 scale model railroad.
Playgrounds. To instill an early desire for engineers. They went electric.