I have been working on a series of passenger car books for about the last ten years using information I have gathered over the last forty years. The first book now stands at 760 pages without pictures and is a complete history of every streamlined sleeping car from the 1930's to today and covers all of North America (USA CANADA MEXICO) the two areas I still need information to complete the book is disposition of Amtrak Heritage cars and those cars autioned by the original Auto-Train when they shut down, I once had the info but have lost it in one of my many moves, I have searched for days with no luck. Any help or info leading to a source for this info would certainly be appreciated.
Al - in - Stockton
Passengerfan, maybe BUMPing this you will find an answer. I hope you don't mind if I pose a question about Amtrak's "Heritage" fleet--What was the lowest number of seats in a coach? The smoking coach on a National Limited in 1978 had very few seats (only 24???), and huge bathrooms.
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood." Daniel Burnham
During that period of time they were ex UP and were 44 leg-rest seat coaches which had served on the City streamliners.
The OnTrackOnLine website may have the Amtrak equipment you need. They do have a good list of diesels.
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