"Orange Restaurant," by the Hisatsu Orange Railway I'm thinking about ways to get the most out of specialty trains like this onepic.twitter.com/xpEryyaNwW
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"Orange Restaurant," by the Hisatsu Orange Railway I'm thinking about ways to get the most out of specialty trains like this onepic.twitter.com/xpEryyaNwW
First thing to consider: these are more common on lightly-used railways, both to attract more people & b/c fewer other trains need the track
Second thing to consider: lightly-used railways are less likely to have fare gates or manned stations b/c revenue won't support them
My idea is this: keep restaurant/bar/library/etc trains open and staffed even while they're out of service (ie, not going anywhere)
The train would act as a sort of addition to whatever station it was idling at, a restaurant (or w/e) that sometimes wanders off...
...but the rest of the time is open for your business. Come down to the station even when no trains are running, have a meal on board!
This way the train can make some money for the railway even when it's not in service, and the station has employees despite being unmanned
You want to idle these trains at their outer destinations--eg if you did this with Kyushu's "A-Train," you'd want it at Misumi not Kumamoto
In New England, I could see trains like this idling in towns in the Berkshires, the Green or White Mountains, the back woods of Maine, etc
A few times a day they'd make trips to and from their respective anchor cities, but during downtime they'd stay put in the boonies
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