What is a railroad style apartment?
To say a apartment is “railroad style” means that the rooms are connected to each other in a row. There is usually not a separate hallway running through the apartment connecting the rooms, rather it’s on the outside of the apartment running from end to end of the apt between the two entrances, in the building’s common space. In other words, one bedroom door will open up into another bedroom. So for example, to get to the the living room in this set up from a bedroom, you’d have to walk through another bedroom, not a hallway, or exit the apartment and walk through the mutual building hallway. In most cases (it’s the law to have two exits), there will be two entrances/exits to the building’s hallway, like in one of the bedrooms and then another in like the living room, so you could always avoid walking through your roommate’s room by exiting the apartment and re-entering through the front door. It all depends on the specific floor plan. “Semi railroad” could mean a lot of things, that t
