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An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago* by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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[–] 19 points 3 years ago (10 children)

Yeah, or at least train cars, with a way to get it onto the network for vacations and such. (Vacationing in a personal train car sounds fun)

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    This is the future I didn't know I wanted. But it seems like a good way to make Snowpiercer reality in record time.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    It's the present in the US. Many people own personal train cars, and you just contract with Amtrak to hook you up and you're off on vacation. You can even bring Babu. You can rent personal cars as well, though you probably should make sure yuor ocelot is housebroken if you're taking a rental.

    Now, I say "many" but what I means is that's more than a few. Many is still probably in the 3-4 digit number (I'm guessing). And you'd be correct in assuming that it's not a luxury most people can afford. But it does exist.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I was just googling around, and it looks to me like a private rail car costs something like a 2nd home, storage fees similar to property tax, $4/mile to have Amtrak haul you around. Basically a vacation home, but mobile. Definitely a 1% thing, but not billionaires-only. Probably way more prestige in saying you've got a private rail car than a beach house. At least among a certain segment.

    Most interesting thing I've learned all week.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Vacationing in a personal train car sounds fun

    My parents almost did this in India a few years back. They have travel agencies that plop you in a couple of nicely-appointed rail cars that you stay in for a month while they're attached to different trains every night. You wake up each morning in a new city - basically a land cruise.

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