Even the drinks are transportation themed.
In late 2018, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority decided to retire its 5000-series train cars, replacing them with newer 7000-series cars. A few months later, former D.C. third-grade-teacher-turned-entrepreneur Jesse Rauch, along with his partners at Hospitality in Transit, LLC, started imagining how he could open a bar inside a railcar, and sketched out a few designs on the back of a napkin.
In 2021, as the capital city started flickering back to life and pandemic-related restrictions were being lifted, Rauch and his partners reached out to the Transit Authority and asked if they could buy an out-of-commission 5000-series car to bring their drawings to life., Rauch’s new purchase was sliced in half, mounted on two trailers, and transported from just outside of Baltimore to just outside D.C.’s Rhode Island Ave-Brentwood Metro station.
The car was stripped of all of its mechanical parts, and the infamous carpet that the 5000-series trains were known for was unceremoniously discarded. At the time, Rauch told the outlet that it may just be “another six to eight weeks” before the bar inside the car opened.
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