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And it wasn't a railroad apartment, laid out in one long line.

Neighbors said the family moved into their second-floor railroad apartment about two months ago.

Tom unlocks the door into a railroad apartment: the first room is the kitchen.

Rosenberg's railroad apartment, one room following the next, offered little privacy.

The place was no larger than a railroad apartment, but was just as inviting.

I live in a railroad apartment, a string of open rooms, so my whole life is exposed to anyone who enters.

But it was a railroad apartment, for one.

Upon entering, one might have expected a railroad apartment - with all the rooms in a row, like a freight train.

Soon the two cupboards of our tiny Brooklyn railroad apartment groaned in protest.

Many early railroad apartments were extremely narrow, and most buildings were five or six stories high.

Rents in the sprawling old warehouses and spacious railroad apartments are relatively affordable.

"The way it is now, it's really a glorified railroad apartment," he said, gesturing to the long line of rooms stretching toward the back.

Alternating bands of concrete block form the facade; the house stretches directly back, like a railroad apartment.

Railroad apartments are common in brownstone apartment buildings.

Then she moved into a West Village railroad apartment with a friend, intending to stay until she bought a place of her own.

Railroad apartments were so named because their narrow layouts recalled those of railroad cars.

I had long thought that a railroad apartment was one like my maternal grandparents lived in about 70 years ago in the East Bronx.

They lived in a railroad apartment on First Avenue underneath the 59th Street Bridge.

Fire officials said they found six of the bodies close together in a bedroom in the middle of the Nadeems' railroad apartment.

I live with three roommates in a walk-up railroad apartment on the Upper East Side.

Their tiny railroad apartment also served as a studio, and it was the first instance of his surroundings seeping into his paintings.

It's one of those wonderful endless railroad apartments from the twenties-a long hallway with rooms attached almost as afterthoughts.

Mr. Decker hated railroad apartments - "trains, I think they call them," he said.

A railroad apartment is somewhat similar, but has a side hallway from which rooms are entered (by analogy to compartments in passenger rail cars).

All Aboard Q. I live in a so-called railroad apartment and figure the name must have something to do with its peculiar layout.