Lionel B & O passenger car named "Emerald Brook"

[Buckeye Riveter]

The Emerald Brook was an 8-Section 4-Double Bedroom Sleeping Car on the National Limited.  

http://www.streamlinerschedules.com/concourse/track3/nationalltd194106.html

Consist Information

Contributed by Alan L. Pettet

NATIONAL LIMITED

Westbound June 28, 1940 leaving Washington

53 EMD EA 1,800 HP Diesel Passenger Cab Unit
53X EMD EB 1,800 HP Diesel Passenger Booster Unit
1302 Baggage 12-Crew Dormitory Buffet 18-Seat Lounge Car
3550 54-Revenue Seat Coach
3554 54-Revenue Seat Coach
1077 28-Seat Dining 12-Seat Lounge Cars
MERCHANTS CLUB 8-Section Buffet 16-Seat Lounge Car
EAST AKRON 12-Section 1-Drawing Room Sleeping Car
EMERALD BROOK 8-Section 4-Double Bedroom Sleeping Car
LOCH EARN 10-Section 1-Drawing Room 2-Compartment Sleeping Car
PALM ISLANDS 3-Compartment 1-Drawing Room Buffet 14-Seat Lounge Solarium Observation

From one of my old posts on the forum....

http://cs.trains.com/ctt/f/95/t/32603.aspx?sort=ASC&pi350=2

The Train Wreck 
May 1956

We left Baltimore’s Mount Royal Station in the usual fashion late in the evening. The big diesel engines growled as the brakes squealed entering the train shed. We boarded and took our seats in the sleeper car as usual. In the middle of the night we awoke from an awful commotion. The porter was yelling and my mother said we had to move. We left the compartment and began walking towards the back of the train. Injured passengers in the coach behind us could be seen in the dim blue night lights. Relocating to another sleeper car I fell back to sleep. 

The train was traveling backwards when I awoke the next morning, and breakfast was not being served. At mid morning the train stopped in a small mountain town. We disembarked and walked to a small coffee shop near the train platform. A small breakfast was purchased, and we returned to the train just in time to see a railroad relic uncouple from the remanet of our train. The small coal black steam engine chugged along the tracks towards the old roundhouse, much to my delight. 

Later we learned that our train had been wrecked when it struck a rock slide exiting a tunnel. The engines and baggage cars derailed and plunged from a bridge into a steep river gorge. Several cars left the tracks, including the dining car located directly ahead of our sleeper. The engineer and fireman were killed in the wreck. 

March 2002 
To celebrate my birthday this year, Molly and Kathy planned an outing at North Bend State Park in West Virginia. Molly being a senior at WVU, would meet us at the park. After reading the literature in the room at the park’s lodge, we discovered that the bike trail followed the tracks of the B&O National Limited. In the pamphlet it said that on May 31, 1956, the B&O’s National Limited exited Tunnel No. 13, struck a rock on the tracks and plunged into the creek, killing the engineer and fireman. I excitedly read to Kathy and Molly the story in the pamphlet, and Kathy looked at me and said that was the same story I had been telling her for years about my train wreck. We drove down to the wreck site and tunnel and took photos. What a wonderful birthday surprise! 

[yellowducky]

Lionel made a B & O passenger car named "Emerald Brook".

1.  Was there a real B & O passenger car named "Emerald Brook"?

2.  Who was Emerald Brook?

 My internet searches have found no answers to these questions.

Thanks to anybody who helps.

Dan