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[quote user="daveklepper"] Cars like this were regularly assigned to the Broadway and General.   Also the Pittsburgher.  I think they were named in the Creek series on the PRR.   Rode them and liked them.  [/quote] My 1957 PRR System Timetable has a picture diagram of a Duplex Room.  The rooms are staggered, with the effect that the passengers in the upper room are sleeping partially over the passengers in the lower room.  The illustration shows a lounge sofa that faces forward or rearward during the day, but makes up into a transverse bed at night, assuming that it is not used as a bed during the day.  A roomette, on the other hand, faces the front or the rear of the car for daytime as well as nighttime configuration. The Broadway Limited was assigned two cars with 12 duplex rooms and 4 double bedrooms.  The General and the Admiral had one car each with the same configuration. All three trains carried the cars between Chicago and New York.  The Golden Triangle, which ran in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Limited, had two duplex cars between Chicago and Pittsburgh except for Saturday night.  Interestingly, the car that did not run on Saturdays had 12 duplex rooms and 5 double bedrooms. The Liberty Limited from Chicago to Washington was assigned a 12 and 4 duplex room car.  And the Red Arrow from Detroit to New York carried a 12 and 5 duplex room car between Detroit to Philadelphia. The Indianapolis Limited to or from New York had one 12 and 5 duplex room car, except on Saturday, whilst the Spirit of St. Louis between New York and St. Louis had a 12 and 4 car.  The Cincinnati Limited got one 12 and 4 car.  Also, The Akronite was assigned a 12 and 5 car between Akron and New York.  The Ohioan carried a 12 and 5 car between Columbus and Chicago. My schedule does not show whether The Pittsburgher/The Statesman had a duplex room car.  Nor does it indicate that duplex cars were assigned to the overnight trains between Boston and Washington.  A roomette in 1957 between New York and Chicago cost $14.40 compared to $16.40 for a duplex room.
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