I was lucky enough to overnight in a traditional Pullman section sleeping car down in Mexico.

Now it seems that quite a number of museums are restoring traditional sleeping cars or even some more modern styles of sleeping cars.

Has any museum offered the use of sleeping cars to the visitors who wish to stay overnight?

If a way to work through all the modern day regulations, it would sure be a great "living history" experience.

Ted Miles, passenger car fan

The "modern day regulations" are what kill this.

I've known of a couple museums that used to offer "crash space" to volunteers so that they could spend weekends volunteering--some in a caboose, some in a sleeper, and at least two in unrestored former RR Pullmans converted to MOW camp cars, one still with a functioning propane kitchen.

Some of them got told outright by authorities that offering such accommodations brought them afoul of various local zoning laws and other regulations, matters such as sewage disposal and whatnot. One later built a YMCA-style dorm and kitchen; another had a volunteer park his RV (oddly, it seemed if it had rubber tires the regulations were different!), and at least one other place just didn't openly talk about it and it just "happened" from there on in.

And THAT was for non-paying volunteers.

I'm not even sure, what with modern regulations, a place like the Chattanooga Choo-Choo, the Red Caboose Motel, or the old RR car motel in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. could even be assembled and opened today.

Ooops, maybe I'm wrong:
http://doolittlestation.com/index.php/s ... -breakfast

This is what the Wisconsin Great Northern offers in far northwest Wisconsin (Spooner).

https://spoonertrainride.com/activities ... ast-train/

Don C.