What did railroads do with excess passenger cards after Amtrak?

[081552]

I know some cars were sold to Amtrak and commuter railroads. What happened to the other excess passenger cars?

[FlyingCrow]

Scrap or Mexico and actually, some to Canada.    

[daveklepper]

Plus toursit lines, private owners, and commutor authorities, such as Metro North and LIRR.   Railroads kept some for executive trains, UP and AT&SF in particular.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

Some of them went the historic route of being rebuilt for M/W service, such as camp cars, tool cars, etc.  Seeing rebuilt postwar lightweight cars in M/W service took some getting used to.

[AgentKid]

CSSHEGEWISCH

Seeing rebuilt postwar lightweight cars in M/W service took some getting used to.

That's a fact.

And observation cars that CN bought from Reading and MILW ended up having to be resold back into the US because they didn't have exit doors on the round end. See any picture of a CZ or "Canadian" observation car for the type of door that met Canadian safety standards.

Bruce

 

[TheEastWind]

As most readers can attest or will elaborate upon, many passenger cars were sold to tourist lines, commuter rail organizations, private owners, or to other countries such as Mexico.  Amtrash did refurbish/spruce-up some cars itself for transitional use.  Most of all, though, many were declared surplus: these were disposed of, mothballed, sold for scrap, or used for parts.