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Carl, Hopper car is perfect! I agree that it is a parlor car, regardless of era. "Chair car" seems, as I understand it, to have been originally railroad-speak for a slightly more luxurious coach. Instead of the single-unit, walk-over seats found, for instance, on commuter coaches, the implication was that chair cars would have two separate seats side-by-side, either of which might recline. But later, there seemed to be no real difference between "chair car" and "coach." Individual seats that swiveled were always parlors, as far as I hyave heard the term used. Larry
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