unexpected streamlined design beauty in a rail inspection car... amazing

Found on http://truquetructruk.tumblr.com/ 

Some where out there is this hotel that used to be a train station

Found on http://stunningpicture.tumblr.com/

Looks incredibly similar to the Indianapolis Indiana Crown Plaza Union Station that Vector just emailed me about:

Well restored caboose made into a rental home... remarkable, and one of six at the Izaak Walton Inn in Essex Montana

For a truly lavish Glacier Park experience, consider staying in one of our one-of-a-kind luxury rail cars. Located adjacent to the Inn, the beautifully appointed GN441 Locomotive & JJ Caboose offer the ultimate in privacy & comfort with all the lodge amenities. Starting December 1st, enjoy our latest historic renovation with our introduction of the Northern Pacific Crew Cab Car & The Great Northern Car. Both luxury cars sleep up to four comfortably, feature gas fireplaces in the master bedrooms, heated floors, full kitchens, granite counter tops, and breathtaking views. The Northern Pacific Crew Cab offers a queen bed in the master bedroom and set of twin bunks. The Great Northern x215 is appointed with a king bed in the master bedroom.

Found on http://rollerman1.tumblr.com/ who reposted it from http://jeremylawsonblog.com/post/82441948824/old-caboose-converted-into-a-vacation-rental-in
and you can go right to the source at http://www.izaakwaltoninn.com/index.php?cID=1

Created and posted on http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/ ... accept no substitutes from adnascentia! The Las Vegas Downtown Container Park

the location is pretty cool, by the El Cortez, on Ogden st... in the old Las Vegas downtown in the Fremont street area

the execution of dozens of shipping containers used to create a small park, with stores, shops, and cafes is very cool. They seem to have sand blasted all the containers, then painted them, and then let the new shops create a business inside them. Even a kids jungle gym!

The caboose and boxcar are immaculate from the sand blast and paint process, but the prices are double the normal prices for a guys haircut

the containers are even big enough for an elevator... very cool!

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the tires decomposed into fertilizer, I bet

Found on  http://myolddear.tumblr.com from  http://jrenphotos.tumblr.com/post/80604773319/always-focus-on-the-front-windshield-and-not-the

who also photographed this terrific caboose

Model T Rail Inspection Vehicle. At Sierra Ry. Roundhouse, Jamestown, CA

Photo by Miles Callan, 12-2013

found on http://t-s-k-b.tumblr.com/

the last great railroad fair, the 1948-49 Chicago Railroad Fair

photos found on http://www.railarchive.net/rrfair/rrfair_photos.htm

the Reading Railroad co Crusader streamliner... sleek

Found on http://silodrome.com/reading-company-crusader-streamliner/

a modern hobo, a traveler of the rails, brought a camera along and finally put his photos and adventures into a book

photo and info from http://twentytwowords.com/young-photographer-documents-his-years-of-vagabonding-on-freight-trains/

At 17 Mike Brodie hopped his first train close to his home in Pensacola, FL thinking he would visit a friend in Mobile, AL. Instead the train went in the opposite direction to Jacksonville, FL. Days later, Brodie rode the same train home, arriving back where he started. Nonetheless, it sparked something and Brodie began to wander across the U.S. by any means that were free - walking, hitchhiking and train hopping. Shortly after, Brodie found a Polaroid camera stuffed behind a carseat. With no training in photography and coke-bottle glasses, the instant camera was an opening for Brodie to document his experiences. As a way of staying in touch with his transient community,Brodie shared his pictures on various websites gaining the moniker The Polaroid Kidd [sic]. When the Polaroid film he used was discontinued, Brodie switched to 35mm film and a sturdy 1980s camera. Brodie spent years crisscrossing the U.S. amassing a collection, now appreciated as one of the most impressive archives of American travel photography. When asked about his approach to travel and photography Brodie has said: sometimes I take a train the wrong way or...whatever happens a photo will come out of it, so it doesn't really matter where I end up.  From the Amazon listing of the book, which isn't cheap, 45 bucks for a used copy A Period of Juvenile Prosperity.