If you don't have your own rail car, it's possible to buy one but be prepared to set a pretty high budget. Fully restored vintage rail cars can cost $500,000 to $1 million, easily. Even DIY ...

“Our membership has dropped by a third from 2018,” Tony Marchiando, a 1948 Pullman sleeper car owner and president of the American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners, told CityLab in 2019.