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Old 10-17-2017, 11:07 AM
 
Location: Vancouver
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Montreal is selling off it's old metro cars. What would you do with one? Make it into a home? A restaurant?

Want your own Montreal subway car? You can buy one from the city for $1,000 | National Post
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Old 10-17-2017, 12:55 PM
 
Location: bend oregon
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id put it on my dads property (i now live close to it since i moved to central oregon a week ago) and stay in it once in a while. right now theres just a old beat up rv there. its a nice property and everyone lives in mobile homes there so it would fit in.
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Old 10-17-2017, 02:23 PM
 
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How would you transport it and for what cost? How cool would it be to make a camp out of it on some property as sorupaa mentioned? You could retrofit it and with all the windows it would be great!
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Old 10-17-2017, 07:06 PM
 
Location: Future Expat of California
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Based on the article, I don't think they make a lot of progress selling them off since they need winterproofing, etc. to work outside.
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Old 10-18-2017, 07:01 AM
 
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Based on the article, I don't think they make a lot of progress selling them off since they need winterproofing, etc. to work outside.
If you had a barn on your property, it would be a really fun project to turn it into something great. And you could store it until it was ready for the outside.
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Old 10-18-2017, 12:12 PM
 
Location: Vancouver
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My apologies. I just realized this article is from April, 2016! Darn FB feeds

So I did a little digging and found one proposal was this

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/old-montre...132400519.html

Maybe someone knows if this happened or is about to happen.

I also found that someone used the doors for art...open to interpretation

MTL
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Old 10-18-2017, 03:49 PM
 
Location: Florida
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They could sell them to latin america.
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Old 10-18-2017, 11:23 PM
 
Location: Vancouver
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They could sell them to latin america.
???

Why would they want 50 year old metro cars as metro cars?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLC4PbM_Kjo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df-aKzJz2a0
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Old 10-21-2017, 03:45 AM
 
Location: Future Expat of California
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If you had a barn on your property, it would be a really fun project to turn it into something great. And you could store it until it was ready for the outside.
Barn? Yeah right. I'd like to know the number of people with a usable barn to empty everything in it to put a subway car in. What could you do with it? It's not a storage container or a railroad car and it would need to be winterized for extended outdoor use like it stated in the article. You would have to have money to winterizing it (I'm not even sure how you would winterize a subway car). Unless you had extensive amount of funds or had some unusual business venture where you turn a decent profit on I'm not sure what they are worth after subway use that other for parts or to be put into a museum.
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Old 10-21-2017, 04:18 PM
 
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Barn? Yeah right. I'd like to know the number of people with a usable barn to empty everything in it to put a subway car in. What could you do with it? It's not a storage container or a railroad car and it would need to be winterized for extended outdoor use like it stated in the article. You would have to have money to winterizing it (I'm not even sure how you would winterize a subway car). Unless you had extensive amount of funds or had some unusual business venture where you turn a decent profit on I'm not sure what they are worth after subway use that other for parts or to be put into a museum.
...and part of the irony is the fact that this urban-only amenity would have to be hauled to a rural area to be revamped. Urbanity can't sustain itself!
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