Old train car converted into tiny house from another time

Table of Content

• Fun little bathroom that keeps the railcar theme.
• Off The Rails: 8 Homes For Sale With Converted Train Cars
• The kitchen
• Netherlands Bed and Breakfast
• Creating a sense of space

This ultra-modern home is actually a retired subway train car. Sleek stainless-steel interior accents pick up the exterior color, while birch paneling and flooring add to the airy feel of the home. Lots of windows and recessed lights make this train car bright and cheerful. This San Francisco home, made from two converted cable cars, is the sole survivor of the unusual Carville-by-the-Sea neighborhood of yesteryear. Thisunusual community, which enjoyed its heyday at the end of the 1800s, consisted of more than 100 homes made from upcycled cable cars and horse-drawn cars.

If you look hard enough, you’ll even find the old ticket window inside. Students at the Missouri University of Science and Technology refurbished three disused shipping containers to build a house that proves... Train car for cabin...would love to have 2 or 3 of these connected...couple of 'em stacked... Others, like this converted caboose house on Mercer Island via ApartmentTherapy, have been strategically cut, rejoined and expanded to accommodate more modern living requirements. As you can imagine, the possibilities are virtually endless.

Fun little bathroom that keeps the railcar theme.

Inside, you’ll find a small kitchen, shower and toilet, plus a double bed and bunk beds, making it an ideal family getaway. This double-decker train car that sleeps five is in the middle of northern Germany’s Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park. Converted from a carriage of an old “Mecklenburg adventure train,” a second floor was added for the bedroom while the main floor is where you’ll find a kitchenette, bathroom and living room area.

Another cozy spot in Cornwall, the “Redwood” train car features a king-size bed, wood-burning stove and kitchenette. A few steps away is where you’ll find the separate bathroom which has a toilet and a shower. For an extra $16, you can rent out an hour to yourself at the onsite hot tub. Relocated from New Hampshire to Canada's Prince Edward Island in 2013, this darling blue caboose has been welcoming overnight guests since 2014. With a separate master bedroom featuring a queen-size bed, the caboose can also sleep up to two more people on the pull-out sofa in the common space where you'll find the kitchen with a vintage stove. Wake up in the Canadian Rockies in this 1912 train caboose located in the heart of the historic small town of Golden.

Off The Rails: 8 Homes For Sale With Converted Train Cars

There’s enough room for four guests to spend a cozy weekend together between a sleeping loft with a queen-size mattress and a fold-out couch downstairs. Tiny House Talk is the ultimate resource for tiny house enthusiasts. Get all your questions answered and start your tiny house journey today. If you’ve been a lifelong train enthusiast, you’re almost certain to fall in love with this converted historic train depot for sale in New Braunfels, Texas, which comes complete with the most magnificent collection of vintage cabooses. This restored luxury train car attached to an Irish pub outside of Brisbane, Australia, has enough room to sleep 18 guests.

It might take you a while to find the right caboose for sale, but this is where you’ll find the best prices. You’ll also be able to find rail cars that have already been refurbished or fully converted into tiny homes. These are perfect for those who aren’t interested in having a big project on their hands. It might take you a few months to find what you’re looking for, but likely the price will make the wait worth it. Matthew de Boer restored a derelict train carriage, handcrafting a beautiful and cozy living space with 1 bedroom in ~256 sq ft.

The kitchen

The Train Wreck houseboat, Sausalito, California, converted from a former railcar used by the San Francisco and Northern Pacific Railway between 1889 and 1907, when it became a Northwestern Pacific Railroad car. Exceptional Ontario & Western train depot turned elegant private home in Bloomingburg, New York is now on the market priced at $895,000. The listing agent is Beryl Oles of Global Property Systems, White Plains, New York.

While the Irish pub doesn’t actually sell anything, you are your friends are welcome to BYO and treat it as your own during your stay. Even though the “TropiCaboose” is decorated with retro tiki décor, it’s located inside a repurposed Southern Pacific train car on the shores of Clear Lake just north of Napa County. There are eight other theme-decorated vintage cabooses that make up Featherbed Railroad Bed and Breakfast. Home to a rich history as the former Accord Train Station, this property is now available for a buyer who wants to live the ultimate train enthusiast’s fantasy. Built in 1902 and renovated in 1993, the home includes a waiting room, ticket taker room, and baggage-handling room, plus two bedrooms and 1.5 baths. A caboose parked out back on the track highlights the home’s original purpose.

Cost of Restoring a Train Cabin

You may be in Silicon Valley during your stay in this Southern Pacific caboose, but you’ll feel worlds away in this rustic space located in a grove of giant redwoods. With enough room for four guests, the amenities inside the train car include a claw foot tub, a fully-working kitchen and a wood-burning stove. This 1926 wooden train caboose used to be part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway before it was repurposed into a tiny house just nine miles outside of Great Smoky Mountain National Park. The caboose fits four guests between a queen-sized memory foam mattress and a fold out couch and is attached to a custom-built bath house called the “The Depot” with luxe amenities including Vera Wang towels and oversized bathrobes.

It also helps to camouflage the building for those interested in living off the grid. No one would think twice about seeing this house from a distance. Located right on the banks of the Tuckasegee River, this tiny home is made from two cabooses. The first one is where you’ll find the kitchen, dining room and living room and the second houses the full bath and bedroom. Train enthusiasts will enjoy watching the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad pass by from the comfort of the covered deck that connects the two cabooses.

They also have a bright-orange Seaboard Coast Line train available to rent, too. This World War II troop kitchen train car has been given the full Fixer Upper treatment at its new home in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. With a queen-size bed plus a sleeper sofa, four guests can spend the night here and enjoy the full kitchen outfitted with Smeg appliances, plus a full bath with a claw-foot tub.

Originally used as a commercial train carriage to transport milk around the U.K., the Siphon—as this Airbnb is called—has been restored into an off-the-grid glamping home in Cornwall that sleeps up to six people in three bedrooms today. If you drive one hour north of Toronto, you’ll find this Canadian Pacific boxcar train turned two-bedroom cottage with enough room for up to four guests. If you’d like you can also swim in the property’s indoor pool, soak in their hot tub or take a yoga class from the host, Vera, who runs the Healthy Earth Farm and Retreat on which the train car cottage is located. If you’re looking for an express line to a quirky, chic home, these unusual homes for sale might be just the ticket. If you come across a sterling rail that’s out of commission, you might want to jump on it. Not only does it offer more space, but it has the potential to expand an existing structure if you know what you’re doing.

The kitchen is functional with wood cabinets to match the rest of the design. With a functioning sink, hotplate, toaster oven, fridge, cooking implements, and a dish drying area to allow guests to make their own meals. There are plenty of areas within the small heated and insulated train car to curl up in and read a book, cook, sit down for a meal, sleep the night away, or even take a luxurious bath no matter what time of the year it may be. Weighing in at around 15 tons or so, but typically measuring only about 10 by 30 feet, old cabooses are massive marvels no longer made by the rail industry. But if you want a ready-made, weather-resistant and flood-water-lofted house, there are much less adorable places to start your search. Originally owned by the Ontario & Western Railroad, the depot was a popular stop for visitors from New York City to visit the resorts that existed in the Sullivan County area a century earlier.