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Posted by Wdlgln005 on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 8:38 PM

The OnTrackOnLine website may have the Amtrak equipment you need. They do have a good list of diesels.

Glenn Woodle
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Posted by passengerfan on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 1:04 PM

During that period of time they were ex UP and were 44 leg-rest seat coaches which had served on the City streamliners.

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Posted by Maglev on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:07 PM

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. 

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Passenger car info needed
Posted by passengerfan on Monday, September 13, 2010 6:23 AM

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

 

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