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PASSENGER TRAIN NOSTALGIA #12

Here’s something to ponder with regard to our appreciation and fascination with
Classic Trains. Check out this ad (from The Official Guide of the Railways – 1956)



Look what they’re saying about the Vista-Dome North Coast Limited!

”FOUR VISTA-DOMES . . . the view really is terrific on the Northern Pacific!”

“Pride of the Northwest . . . a train second to none!”

“One of the top trains in the country”

“A LOVELY STEWARDESS-NURSE . . . so kind to me and my children”

“Most friendly and courteous employees”

“Comfortable trip – delicious meals. Our compliments to the chef”

“THE TRAVELLER’S REST buffet-lounge . . . most unique car we’ve ever seen . . . captures the flavor and romance of the West”

”WON’T YOU BE MY GUEST?”
Now a friendly Stewardess-Nurse welcomes you aboard the Vista-Dome North Coast Limited. You’ll enjoy extra traveling pleasure at no extra cost – in fact, even low Family Fares apply! Heading East or West through the scenic Northwest, you’ll see for yourself why passengers call it . . .

. . . . . One of the world’s Extra Fine trains . . . . .

. . . . . For complete information, write
. . . . . G. W. RODINE, Passenger Traffic Manager . . . . .
. . . . . Northern Pacific Railway, St. Paul 1, Minn. . . . . .

CHICAGO – TWIN CITIES – SPOKANE – PORTLAND – TACOMA – SEATTLE


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PENNSYLVANIA
(PRR)
Streamlined Dining & Lounge Cars
by Al

Known as the standard railroad of the world for many years and particularly true in the heavyweight era of passenger trains the PRR nonetheless placed some of America’s finest streamliners in service as well.
The Pennsylvania railroads finest was the BROADWAY LIMITED between Chicago and New York. Always operated with the finest Pullmans and never a coach during the heavyweight era. Only the best dining cars and lounge cars were assigned to this fine train.
Rival NYC fielded the TWENTIETH CENTURY LIMITED in direct competition to the BROADWAY LIMITED and by 1937 the time to streamline these fine trains at last came. Both railroads chose the architects for their fine streamliners and work began at the Pullman Standard plant on the head end, sleeping, lounge and dining cars for the NYC. For rival PRR Pullman Standard constructed sleeping and lounge cars, and the railroad itself provided the dining and head end cars for the new BROADWAY LIMITED.
Famed industrial designer and architect Raymond Loewy was the man chosen for not only the BROADWAY LIMITED but also the entire PRR fleet of modernism introduced in 1938. Besides the BROADWAY LIMITED the PRR was modernizing three other trains at the same time the LIBERTY LIMITED between Washington, D.C. and Chicago, the equal of the BROADWAY LIMITED on this route except it also carried coach passengers. The GENERAL between New York and Chicago another train whose schedule was only slightly slower than the BROADWAY LIMITEDS.
The last of the fleet of modernism trains was the SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS a train that operated between its namesake city in the west and New York City in the east. The BROADWAY LIMITED, LIBERTY LIMITED and GENERAL required but two sets of equipment to maintain nightly service in each direction. Due to the greater distance of the SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS route this train required three sets of equipment. The BROADWAY LIMITED was the only All-Pullman, All-Room extra fare train of the four. All three of the other trains carried coaches. In April 1942 the GENERAL, LIBERTY LIMITED and SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS became all Pullman trains dropping coaches from the three trains for at least the duration of WW II.
The PRR Altoona shops shopped two heavyweight dining cars 4420 and 4423 for modernizing and completely new interiors for assignment to the BROADWAY LIMITED. The four cars emerged from the shops in May 1938 just in time for the June 15, 1938 inaugural of the new streamlined BROADWAY LIMITED and the other three fleet of modernism trains. Standard dining cars of the era normally featured 36-seats at six tables for four along one side and six tables for two along the other side. The two rebuilt dining cars out shopped by Altoona were different beginning at one end there was the standard kitchen along the left side of the car with a new pantry area next on the same side. On the right hand side next was two tables for two a lounge type seating area for two next followed by two tables for four and then a lengthwise bar occupied the final seven feet of the right side. On the left side from the pantry area was located two tables for four a lounge type seating area for two followed by two tables for two, and finally was a small lounge facing the bar with seating for two passengers at two small cocktail tables. This lounge was considered a waiting area for passengers waiting to be seated in the dining area. The total seating capacity of the BROADWAY LIMITED dining cars was only 28 or 30 if one counted the two lounge seats. Standard heavyweight 36-seat dining cars were always held in reserve at Chicago and New York just in case one the BROADWAY LIMITED dining cars were unable to make a trip.
The other feature cars of the new streamlined BROADWAY LIMITEDS were Barber Shop, Secretary room, 2-Double Bedroom Bar 38-seat lounge cars HARBOR POINT and HARBOR SPRINGS. These two cars were rebuilt in April 1943 to 5-Double Bedroom Buffet lounge cars. This was due to wartime restrictions on lounge cars if they did not have a certain amount of sleeping space. With the addition of three double bedrooms replacing the barbershop and secretary’s room they meant the requirement for sleeping car space and remained in service throughout the war.
The last car in each BROADWAY LIMITED was a beautiful round end Observation with 1-Double Bedroom 2-Master Rooms Buffet and 25-seat Lounge Observation. There was four of these cars constructed FEDERAL VIEW, METROPOLITAN VIEW, SKYLINE VIEW and WASHINGTON VIEW. The FEDERAL VIEW and WASHINGTON VIEW carried the tail-sign for the LIBERTY LIMITED and METROPOLITAN VIEW and SKYLINE VIEW carried the tail-sign for the BROADWAY LIMITED consists. In January 1957 the SKYLINE VIEW and WASHINGTON VIEW were assigned to parlor car service and assigned numbers 7150 and 7151. By 1962 both had been withdrawn from parlor car service and sold to Mexico. The FEDERAL VIEW and METROPOLITAN VIEW both were sold to Mexico in the early 1960’s.

BARBER SHOP SECRETARY ROOM 2-DOUBLE BEDROOM ¼ ROUND BAR 28-SEAT LOUNGE CARS Pullman Standard May 1938 Plan: 4077 Lot: 6550 (Built for and assigned to BROADWAY LIMITED)

HARBOR POINT

HARBOR SPRINGS

1-DOUBLE BEDROOM 2-DRAWING ROOM BUFFET 25-SEAT LOUNGE OBSERVATIONS Pullman Standard May 1938 Plan: 4080 Lot: 6548 (Built for and assigned to BROADWAY LIMITED and LIBERTY LIMITED)

BROADWAY LIMITED

METROPOLITAN VIEW

SKYLINE VIEW

LIBERTY LIMITED

FEDERAL VIEW

WASHINGTON VIEW

Other streamlined feature cars built in 1938 for the LIBERTY LIMITED were a pair of Budd built streamlined dining cars delivered in December 1937 and March 1938. These two cars were experimental as far as the PRR was concerned but they assigned them to the LIBERTY LIMITED instead. Car 4500 was delivered in December 1937 and operated in several PRR trains before the new LIBERTY LIMITEDS entered service. The seating in this car was arranged on the one side with two tables for four followed by a settee type seating arrangement for six with the back to the windows followed by another table seating area with two tables for four for a total seating capacity along the right side for 22 at the far end of the right side was a bar. Along the left side there was a settee type seating area for 6 followed by two tables for four and then another settee area for six. This gave the 4500 a total seating capacity of 42. The car was rebuilt to a standard 48-seat dining car in 1953, and finally retired and scrapped in 1961. The car spent most of its operational life in pool service.
The 4501 delivered in March 1938 were arranged in a different manner with both sides identically arranged except for the right side having a bar at the far end from the Kitchen and pantry area. Each side seated 22 arranged with two tables for four a settee for six and again two tables for four. This gave the 4501 a seating capacity of 44. After assignment to the LIBERTY LIMITED the car was assigned to the dining car pool and was rebuilt to a standard 48-seat dining car in 1953 and like 4500 was retired and scrapped in 1961.

42-SEAT DINING CAR Budd Company December 1937 (Built for and assigned to LIBERTY LIMITED)

4500

44-SEAT DINING CAR Budd Company March 1938 (Built for and assigned to LIBERTY LIMITED)

4501

Pullman Standard delivered nine COLONIAL series cars in May 1938 for assignment to the other three fleet of modernism trains. These cars featured 3-double bedrooms 1-drawing room a 1/4 round bar and 26-seat lounge. The GENERAL operated with two COLONIAL series cars in each consist as the GENERAL operated without a Sleeper Lounge Observation The SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS ad LIBERTY LIMITED operated with Sleeper Lounge Observations so only carries one COLONIAL series in each consist.

3-DOUBLE BEDROOM 1-DRAWING ROOOM ¼ ROUND BAR 26-SEAT LOUNGE CARS Pullman Standard May 1938 Plan: 4078 Lot: 6551 (Built for and assigned to GENERAL, LIBERTY LIMITED and SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS)

GENERAL

COLONIAL CONGRESS

COLONIAL FATHERS

COLONIAL GOVERNORS

LIBERTY LIMITED

COLONIAL STAGES

COLONIAL TRAILS

SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS

COLONIAL DAMES

COLONIAL INNS

COLONIAL MANSIONS

The three NARROWS series sleeper lounge observations built for the SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS were 1-Double Bedroom 1-Compartment 2-Drawing Room ¼ round bar 25-seat lounge observations.
In March 1942 JACK’S NARROWS was renamed WAKE ISLAND for the brave defenders of the Pacific Island that fell to Japanese forces early in WW II. In January 1949 WAKE ISLAND was renamed once more this time SAMUEL VAUGHAN MERRICK.
The other two NARROWS series sleeper Lounge observations were renamed in February 1949 JUNIATA NARROWS was renamed WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN PATTERSON and LEWISTOWN NARROWS was renamed JOHN EDGAR THOMSON. The SAMUEL VAUGHAN MERRICK was assigned to one of the CITY OF LOS ANGELES consists beginning in March 1952 wearing streamliner colors while in this service. With the arrival on the UP of Dome Lounge Observations in March 1955, the SAMUEL VAUGHAN MERRICK was returned to the PRR.
Two of the cars WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN PATTERSON and SAMUEL VAUGHAN MERRICK were designated parlor cars in April 1957 and received the numbers 7152 and 7153 at that time; by 1962 both cars had been retired and sold to Mexico.
In addition a large number of heavyweight Pullmans were streamlined for service in other PRR trains, and among this list were the following Pullman cars that included feature cars as follows.

24-PARLOR SEAT
8-SEAT SUN LOUNGE

BROUSSARD

20-PARLOR SEAT
12-SEAT BUFFET LOUNGE

GEORGE WASHINGTON

JOHN ADAMS

12-PARLOR SEAT BUFFET
20-SEAT SUN LOUNGE OBSERVATION

THOMAS JEFFERSON

1-COMPARTMENT 1-DRAWING ROOM BUFFET 20-SEAT LOUNGE OBSERVATIONS

ANDREW W. MELLON

RICHARD BEATTY MELLON

6-SINGLE BEDROOM BUFFET
20-SEAT LOUNGE CARS

SUMMIT GROVE

SUMMIT LAKE

BAGGAGE BUFFET
20-SEAT LOUNGE CARS

INDIAN POINT

INDIAN ROCK

The above cars operated in such trains as the PITTSBURGH NIGHT EXPRESS, PHILADELPHIA NIGHT EXPRESS, PITTSBURGHER, and GOLDEN TRIANGLE.
In 1939 the PRR received fifteen lightweight streamlined 48-seat dining cars, five from Budd Company 4502-4506, five from American Car & Foundry 4507 – 4511 and five from Pullman Standard 4512, 4514 – 4517. These cars were assigned to the Fleet of Modernism and other trains needing 48-seat dining cars.

48-SEAT DINING CARS Pullman Standard July – August 1939 (Built for and assigned to Fleet of Modernism)

4512, 4514 – 4517

48-SEAT DINING CARS Budd Company August 1939 (Built for and assigned to Fleet of Modernism)

4502 – 4506

48-SEAT DINING CARS American Car & Foundry August 1939 (Built for and assigned to Fleet of Modernism)

4507 - 4511

Large orders for additional sleeping cars were delivered to the PRR in 1938, 1939 and 1940. Among the sleeping cars delivered were 13-FALLS series 6 Double Bedroom Buffet 20-seat lounge cars. These cars were assigned to such trains as the PITTSBURGHER and GOLDEN TRIANGLE as well as many other overnight trains along the east –west routes. In April 1949 OAK FALLS was renamed BUTTERNUT FALLS.

6-DOUBLE BEDROOM BAR 20-SEAT LOUNGE CARS Pullman Standard September 1940 Plan: 4086A Lot: 6612 (Built for and assigned to PITTSBURGHER, GOLDEN TRIANGLE and other PRR overnight trains)

BIRCH FALLS

CEDAR FALLS

CYPRESS FALLS

ELM FALLS

HEMLOCK FALLS

HICKORY FALLS

JUNIPER FALLS

LOCUST FALS

MAPLE FALLS

OAK FALLS

PINE FALLS

SPRUCE FALLS

SYCAMORE FALLS

The PRR introduced a new all –coach streamliner between New York and Chicago beginning July 28, 1939 named the TRAIL BLAZER. The PRR Altoona shops streamlined the entire trains from older heavyweight cars. Each of the two consists of the TRAIL BLAZER had four feature cars for the use of the coach passengers. All of the cars for the TRAIL BLAZER were streamlined using old heavyweight coaches except for the twin unit dining cars in which used old heavyweight single unit dining cars. The first car in each consist of the TRAIL BLAZER was a Baggage Buffet 27- seat Lounge car 4931 or 4950 out shopped by Altoona shops in July 1939 just in time for the new trains inaugural. Mid-train in the TRAIL BLAZERS was a 19-crew Dormitory Kitchen car followed by a 68-seat dining room car. These cars operated as a set and were semi permanently coupled together using a drawbar. In one consist Dormitory –Kitchen car 8019 and Dining room car 8020 were paired and in the other TRAIL BLAZER consist Dormitory – Kitchen car 8021 and dining room car 8022 operated paired these cars were completed by Altoona shops in early July 1939.
Bringing up the rear of the TRAIL BLAZERS were Buffet Observation cars rebuilt and streamlined using old heavyweight coaches. For the TRAIL BLAZER these cars were 1120 rebuilt from old heavyweight coach 7777 and 1121 rebuilt from heavyweight coach 8930. The interiors of these cars featured a Buffet with 16-seat dinette and 35 lounge seats in the observation end. These cars along with the coaches were ready for service just in time for the July startup of the new train.
On December 19, 1940 the PRR inaugurated a new seven car all coach streamliner from Budd named the SOUTH WIND between Chicago and Miami operating via the PRR between Chicago and Louisville over its own lines, the L&N to Montgomery, ACL to Jacksonville and FEC to Miami. Two other railroads introduced seven car coach streamliners between Chicago and Miami at the same time the FEC and IC, all operated by different routes between Chicago and Jacksonville. Between the three trains they provided daily service between end points. The new SOUTH WIND had two feature cars a 48-seat dining car numbered 4518 and a Buffet 16-seat dinette 35-seat Lounge Observation numbered 1126.

48-SEAT DINING CAR Budd Company December 1940 (Built for and assigned to SOUTH WIND)

4518

BUFFET 16-SEAT DINETTE 35-SEAT LOUNGE OBSERVATION Budd Company December 1940 (Built for and assigned to SOUTH WIND)

1126

Just a few months after the SOUTH WIND entered service the PRR Altoona shops were busy rebuilding additional cars for another coach streamliner the JEFFERSONIAN that entered service April 27, 1941 between New York and St. Louis. The new JEFFERSONIAN required three sets of equipment for daily service. Once again the PRR selected twin unit dining cars for this train 19-crew dormitory – kitchen units coupled to 68-seat dining room cars. The one train set operated with Dormitory –Kitchen 8027 and Dining room car 8028, another operated with Dormitory – Kitchen 8029 and Dining room car 8030, and the last set operated with Dormitory – Kitchen 8031 and Dining room car 8032. There were four Buffet Lounge Observations built for the JEFFERSONIAN trains, this was because a Washington section of the train operated between Washington and Harrisburg where it joined the main train. The fourth Buffet Lounge Observation operated only between Harrisburg and Washington.
The four Buffet 16-seat dinette 35-seat lounge observations were as follows:

1122 rebuilt from coach 1706

1123 rebuilt from coach 1795

1124 rebuilt from coach 1667

1125 rebuilt from coach 1833

Altoona shops turned out additional streamlined feature cars before WW II again rebuilt from heavyweights. The exact trains these additional cars were built for is unknown, as they seemed to be used everywhere and in whatever train was in need of this type car.
In June 1941 two Buffet 16-seat dinette 35-seat lounge observations were released for service by Altoona shops they were numbered 1127 and 1128.
In August 1941 three Baggage 12-crew dormitory Buffet 16 seat lounge cars were completed for the JEFFERSONIAN numbers 6701 – 6703. These cars and new streamlined single unit dining cars replaced the twin unit dining cars of the JEFFERSONIAN, as passenger loads on these trains was not as great as that of the TRAIL BLAZERS.
Altoona shops completed three Baggage 12-Crew Dormitory Buffet 16 seat Lounge cars numbers 6704 – 6706 in March 1942.
Rushed to completion that same month were three Buffet 16-seat Dinette 35-seat Lounge Observations that entered service in the corridor designated as Buffet 16-seat dinette 35-seat Parlor observations. These cars were numbered 1129 – 1131.
Due to a shortage of dining cars on the PRR the government relaxed their wartime restrictions long enough for Altoona shops to streamline five twin unit dining car sets. Three of the cars were 19-seat Crew Dormitory – Kitchen cars 8027, 8029, and 8031. Car number 8033 and 8035 were 12 – seat Lunch Counter – Kitchen cars built for Northeast corridor service. The five 68-seat dining room cars with 4-seat waiting area were numbers 8028, 8030, 8032, 8034 and 8036. These cars were all completed in June 1943 and were immediately pressed into wartime service.
Following the war the PRR was committed to upgrading many of the prewar streamliners and in many cases complete new trains replaced prewar streamliners, and this in turn gave more streamlined cars to other trains that had previously had few if any streamlined cars. New car deliveries in 1948 and 1949 completely reequipped the BROADWAY LIMITED, LIBERTY LIMITED, SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS, GENERAL, TRAIL BLAZER, and JEFFERSONIAN. The latter two trains postwar new equipment was built by the railroads own Altoona shops. This was their first new streamlined cars as all prewar streamlined cars turned out by Altoona shops had been rebuilds using old heavyweight cars. First out of the Altoona shops seventy 44-seat long distance coaches numbers 4100 – 4169. These cars would be assigned to the postwar TRAIL BLAZER and JEFFERSONIAN later many of the east-west trains received these cars. Altoona shops completed these cars between December 1946 and July 1949.
The first postwar feature cars built by Altoona Shops was five Baggage-Bar 27-seat Lounge cars 6695-6699. These cars were built in Altoona shops in September – October 1947. The five cars were assigned to the postwar TRAIL BLAZER and JEFFERSONIAN. Four of the cars were retired and scrapped in 1961, all except 6696, which was rebuilt to a 65’ Railway Post office car and renumbered 6599 in 1965.

BAGGAGE BAR 27-SEAT LOUNGE CARS PRR Altoona Shops September – October 1947 (Built for and assigned to TRAIL BLAZER – JEFFERSONIAN)

6695 – 6699

Next Altoona shops built the five postwar Buffet 53-seat lounge cars with the blunt end for the TRAIL BLAZER and JEFFERSONIAN. These cars numbers 1132 – 1136 were built with a taper blunt end that was unique to all PRR postwar Observations. One car 1135 was retired in 1961 and sold to a private owner, the other four were retired and scrapped in 1967.

BUFFET 16-SEAT DINETTE 37-SEAT LOUNGE OBSERVATION (Blunt) PRR Altoona Shops January – February 1948 (Built for and assigned to TRAIL BLAZER – JEFFERSONIAN)

1133 – 1136

American Car & Foundry delivered three of the most interesting cars ever built in February – March 1948 for the JEFFERSONIAN. These cars were the Recreation cars built for the JEFFERSONIAN. Each car beginning at the full vestibule end featured a six-seat mini-theater for newsreels, a pinball machine, and sunken bar lounge with seating for 24. Next was a small nursery for children, and finally a reading and game room for 12. All three Recreation cars were transferred to the PENN TEXAS in 1952. The Pinball machine mini – theater and Nursery was removed from all three cars in 1955 and they continued in PENN TEXAS service. In 1964 all three were sold to the Holiday on Ice shows where they were gutted and used as tunnel cars for the props used in the ice shows.

6-SEAT MINI-THEATER PINBALL MACHINE BAR-BUFFET 24-SEAT SUNKEN LOUNGE NURSERY 12-SEAT READING –GAME LOUNGE RECREATION CARS American Car & Foundry February – March 1948 (Built for and assigned to JEFFERSONIAN later PENN TEXAS)

7300 – 7302

Finally between October and December 1948 Altoona shops delivered the five-twin unit dining sets for the TRAIL BLAZER and JEFFERSONIAN. These cars in the odd numbered units were built with 19-crew dormitory spaces and the Kitchen. The crew dormitory space was for the dining car crew and lounge car attendants in three tier bunks for eighteen. The separate private bedroom was for the Dining car steward. The even numbered cars paired with these Crew Dormitory – Kitchen units seated 68 at 16 tables for four and 2 tables for two. In addition there was a waiting area that seated four. Two sets were retired and scrapped in 1961 4590-4591 and 4598-4599, two other sets followed in retirement and scrapping in 1967 4594-4595 and 4596-4597. In 1968 the final set of Altoona built twin unit dining car sets was retired and scrapped 4592-4593.

½ TWIN UNIT 68-SEAT DINING ROOM CARS WITH 4-SEAT WAITING ROOM PRR Altoona Shops October – December 1948 (Built for and assigned to TRAIL BLAZER and JEFFERSONIAN)

4590, 4592, 4494, 4496, 4498

½ TWIN UNIT 19-CREW DORMITORY KITCHEN CARS PRR Altoona Shops October – December 1948 (Built for and assigned to TRAIL BLAZER and JEFFERSONIAN)

4591, 4593, 4595, 4597, 4599

The pride of the PRR received new sleeping cars and four feature cars between December 1948 and February 1949 and the all-new postwar BROADWAY LIMITED began operating March 15, 1949. The closest rival the TWENTIETH CENTURY LIMITED began operating with new postwar equipment on September 15, 1948.
In December 1948 Pullman Standard delivered the two HARBOR series lounge cars for the postwar BROADWAY LIMITED. These cars had 3-Double Bedrooms, Barber shop with adjoining shower, Secretary’s room, and Buffet 20-seat Lounge cars. In January 1956 HARBOR COVE was rebuilt to 5-double bedroom buffet 20-seat lounge car. The HARBOR REST underwent the same rebuilding in February 1957 in both cars a phone room was installed between two of the bedrooms. The two cars were retired in 1971 and eventually scrapped.

3-DOUBLE BEDROOM BARBER SHOP SHOWER SECRETARYS ROOM BUFFET 20-SEAT LOUNGE CARS Pullman Standard December 1948 Plan: 4141 Lot: 6792 (Built for and assigned to BROADWAY LIMITED)

HARBOR COVE

HARBOR REST

Pullman Standard delivered the two new Sleeper Buffet Lounge Observations with the blunt end to the PRR in January 1949. These were the VIEW series with 1-Double Bedroom 2-Master Room Buffet 25-seat Lounge Observations. These cars were retired and sold privately in the 1970’s.

1-DOUBLE BEDROOM 2-MASTER ROOMS BUFFET 25-SEAT LOUNGE OBSERVATIONS Pullman Standard January 1949 Plan: 4133 Lot: 6792 (Built for and assigned to BROADWAY LIMITED)

MOUNTAIN VIEW

TOWER VIEW

The new dining cars for the postwar BROADWAY LIMITED were twin unit cars initially sets from American Car & Foundry, and after July 1949 Budd built sets most often operated in the BROADWAY LIMITED. The American Car & Foundry sets numbered five and were delivered between December 1948 and March 1949. The 68-seat dining room cars with four-seat waiting room were numbered 4600 to 4608 even numbers only and the 19-Crew dormitory Kitchen cars were numbered 4601 to 4609 odd numbers only. The two sets originally assigned to the BROADWAY LIMITED were transferred to the CINCINNATI LIMITED when the Budd built dining cars arrived in July 1949. The other three sets of AC&F built dining units were assigned to the SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS. All five sets were retired in the late 1960’s.

½ TWIN UNIT 68-SEAT DINING ROOM CARS WITH FOUR SEAT WAITING AREA American Car & Foundry December 1948 – February 1949 (Built for SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS – CINCINNATI LIMITED ran occasionally in BROADWAY LIMITED)

4600, 4602, 4604, 4606, 4608

½ TWIN UNIT 19-CREW DORMITORY – KITCHEN CARS American Car & Foundry December 1948 – February 1949 (Built for and assigned to SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS – CINCINNATI LIMITED ran occasionally in BROADWAY LIMITED)

4601, 4603, 4605, 4607, 4609

Seven new 1-double bedroom 1-compartment 2-drawing room Buffet 25-seat lounge observations were delivered in February – March 1949 for assignment to the CINCINNATI LIMITED, LIBERTY LIMITED and SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS. These cars were originally to have been assigned NARROWS series names but before delivery the PRR decided to name them for influential businessmen and politicians so important to the PRR.

1-DOUBLE BEDROOM 1-COMPARTMENT 2-DRAWING ROOM BUFFET 25-SEAT LOUNGE OBSERVATIONS Pullman Standard February – March 1949 Plan: 4134 Lot: 6792 (Built for and assigned to CINCINNATI LIMITED – LIBERTY LIMITED – SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS)

CINCINNATI LIMITED

GEORGE BROOKE SCOTT intended name BRANDYWINE NARROWS

FRANK THOMSON intended name CONEMAUGH NARROWS

LIBERTY LIMITED

THOMAS ALEXANDER SCOTT intended name ALLEGHENY NARROWS

ALEXANDER JOHNSON CASSATT intended name OHIO NARROWS

SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS

JAMES McCREA intended name POTOMAC NARROWS

SAMUEL REA intended name SCHUYLKILL NARROWS

WILLIAM WALLACE ATTERBURY intended name SUSQUEHANNA NARROWS

Between March and May 1949 Pullman Standard delivered eleven 6-Double Bedroom Buffet 20-seat Lounge cars for trains such as the GENERAL, CINCINNATI LIMITED, ADMIRAL and other major trains. These cars were FALLS series cars almost identical to the prewar cars of this type and the two lots became interchangeable between trains. Two of these cars LINDEN FALLS was renamed HENRY PHIPPS in August 1956 and FIR FALLS was renamed CHARLES MICHAEL SCHWAB September 1956 for assignment to the PITTSBURGHER. They operated system wide.

6-DOUBLE BEDROOM BUFFET 20-SEAT LOUNGE CARS Pullman Standard March – May 1949 Plan: 4131 Lot: 6792 (Built for and assigned to General service)

ALDER FALLS

ASPEN FALS

BALSAM FALLS

BEECH FALLS

CATALPA FALLS

FIR FALLS

LARCH FALLS

LINDEN FALLS

PALM FALLS

SASSAFRAS FALLS

SUMAC FALLS

Pullman Standard delivered eight COLONIAL series 3-double bedroom 1-drawing room Buffet 27-seat lounge cars in May – June 1949. These cars were assigned to the LIBERTY LIMITED and other trains and were pooled with the earlier prewar COLONIAL series cars even though the prewar COLONIAL series cars did not have bathroom annexes.

3-DOUBLE BEDROOM 1-DRAWING ROOM BUFFET 27-SEAT LOUNGE CARS Pullman Standard May – June 1949 Plan: 4132 Lot: 6792 (Built for and assigned to General service)

COLONIAL ARMS

COLONIAL CABINS

COLONIAL CRAFTS

COLONIAL DOORWAYS

COLONIAL FLAGS

COLONIAL HOUSES

COLONIAL LANTERNS

COLONIAL SCOUTS

Budd delivered there long awaited seven twin unit dining –Kitchen Dormitory cars in July 1949. These would serve in many of the PRR’s finest trains including the BROADWAY LIMITED – GENERAL and other fine trains.

½ TWIN UNIT 68-SEAT DINING ROOM CARS WITH 4-SEAT WAITING ROOM Budd Company July 1949 (Built for and assigned to BROADWAY LIMITED – GENERAL and other trains)

4610, 4612, 4614, 4616, 4618, 4620, 4622

½ TWIN UNIT 19-CREW DORMITORY – KITCHEN CARS Budd Company July 1949 (Built for and assigned to BROADWAY LIMITED – GENERAL and other trains)

4611, 4613, 4615, 4617, 4619, 4621, 4623

In August –September 1949 Budd delivered six 48-seat dining cars 4519 - 4524 for general service in August – September 1949. These were the last Budd built dining cars delivered with smooth sides delivered to the PRR, the next single unit dining cars delivered by Budd would be in their traditional fluted stainless steel sides with only a Tuscan red name board above the windows.

48-SEAT DINING CARS Budd Company August – September 1949 (Built for and assigned to General Service)

4519 – 4524

Budd delivered two 28-seat coach 21-seat lounge bar cars 1151 and 1152 in September 1949. They were built for and assigned to the CINCINNATI LIMITED for the benefit of coach passengers of these overnight trains between New York and Cincinnati.

28-SEAT COACH 21-SEAT LOUNGE BAR CARS Budd Company September 1949 (Built for and assigned to CINCINNATI LIMITED)

1151, 1152

Between October 1951 and January 1952 Budd delivered four complete trains to the PRR for service in the Northeast corridor. Two of the trains streamlined were SENATORS operating between Boston and Washington via New York Penn Station. The other two train sets were the new CONGRESSIONALS between New York and Washington. The SENATORS operated one trip in each direction daily and the CONGRESSIONALS operated two trips in each direction daily. The SENATORS were fourteen car rains as built and the CONGRESSIONALS were 18 car trains. All four new train sets began service March 17, 1952.
The SENATORS operated with three feature cars.
The first of these was an 18-seat Lunch Counter Bar 26-seat Tavern Lounge car train lined as the sixth car in each SENATOR behind five 60-seat coaches. After three more 60-seat coaches was a 48-seat dining car. To the rear of the dining car was three 29-seat Parlor 5-seat parlor drawing room cars and bringing up the markers were 14-seat Parlor Telephone Room Buffet 13-seat Lounge 12 seat Lounge Observation These were the cars built for and assigned to the SENATORS.

18 – SEAT LUNCH COUNTER BAR 26-SEAT TAVERN LOUNGE CARS Budd Company February 1952 (Built for and assigned to SENATORS)

1155, 1156

48-SEAT DINING CARS Budd Company February 1952 (Built for and assigned to SENATORS)

4525, 4526

14-SEAT PARLOR – TELEPHONE ROOM – BUFFET 13-SEAT LOUNGE 12-SEAT LOUNGE OBSERVATIONS Budd Company January 1952 Plan: 9528 Lot: 9628 – 110 (Built for and assigned to SENATORS)

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

MARTHA WASHINGTON

Those feature cars built for the CONGRESSIONALS were 18-seat Lunch Counter Bar 26-seat Tavern Lounge train lined fifth in the consists. They trailed four 60-seat coaches, following the Lunch counter tavern lounge cars were four additional 60-seat coaches. Trailing these four coaches were the twin unit dining sets. These twin units seated 72 in the Dining room car and the capacity of the trailing Kitchen – Bar 21-seat Tavern Lounge car. The last car in each eighteen car consist was an 18-seat Parlor Buffet 13-seat Lounge 12-seat Lounge Observation.

18-SEAT LUNCH COUNTER BAR 26-SEAT TAVERN LOUNGE CARS Budd Company February 1952 (Built for and assigned to CONGRESSIONAL)

1153, 1154

½ TWIN UNIT 72-SEAT DINING ROOM CARS Budd Company February 1952 (Built for and assigned to CONGRESSIONAL)

4624, 4626

½ TWIN UNIT KITCHEN BAR 21-SEAT LOUNGE CARS Budd Company February 1952 (Built for and assigned to CONGRESSIONAL)

4625, 4627

18-SEAT PARLOR BUFFET 13-SEAT LOUNGE 12-SEAT LOUNGE OBSERVATIONS Budd Company January 1952 Plan: 9529 Lot: 9628 – 110 (Built for and assigned to CONGRESSIONAL)

GEORGE WASHINGTON

ALEXANDER HAMILTON

TTFN Al

[siberianmo]

G'day!

My finale for this fine day . . .

Pennsy E44 (courtesy: www.trainweb.org)


Later! [tup]

Tom[4:-)] [oX)]

[passengerfan]

From what I have been able to tell from infrormation I have on the UP they operated observations until the introduction of the dome lounge observations on the CITY OF LOS ANGELES. But they were not always UP owned. The CITY OF LOS ANGELES often operated with offline observations such as one of the NEW ROYAL PALM Sleeper Lounge Observation ROYAL CREST (NYC owned) that was destroyed while on the CITY OF LOS ANGELES in Wyoming by a trailing CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO consist within a couple of years of being built for the Southern train. This accident also destroyed a couple of new UP owned sleeping cars AMERICAN BORDER and PACIFIC EMPIRE. Hope this helps.

TTFN Al

[siberianmo]

G'day!

No doubt 20 Fingers Al will respond to your question - DeLuxe . . . . keep checking . . .

Another Pennsy Pix!

PRR E7A #5840 (foto credit: J. Hunt)


Later! [tup]

Tom[4:-)] [oX)]

[Anonymous]

Can somebody tell me when UP dropped round-end observations on the City of Los Angeles? Was it before the 1955 arrival of the Dome-Lounge observations?

[passengerfan]

PENNSYLVANIA
Streamlined Sleeping Cars
by Al

The PRR was one of the largest operators of lightweight stream-lined sleeping cars and one of the first to buy large numbers of these cars. Unlike the NYC who streamlined their TWENTIETH CENTURY LIMITED in 1938 the PRR not only streamlined the BROADWAY LIMITED but purchased additional streamlined sleeping cars for operation in other PRR trains. Even though the other trains were not fully equipped with streamlined sleeping cars the PRR had Pullman streamline a number of heavyweight sleeping cars for these trains as well They became the Fleet of Modernism as the PRR referred to them. The trains that belonged to the fleet of Modernism were the BROADWAY LIMITED between New York and Chicago, LIBERTY LIMITED between Washington and Chicago, GENERAL between New York and Chicago and the SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS between New York and St. Louis. The latter train carried connecting cars to and from Washington meeting the main body of the SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS at Harrisburg. Only the BROADWAY LIMITED of the four trains was all Pullman at that time. The other three would soon become All Pullman trains once again as the depression's effects gradually eased. All four of these trains had originated as heavyweight trains and all four became the fleet of Modernism on June 15, 1938.
First of the new trains to depart New York on that date was the GENERAL on its fast 17 hour 10 minute race to Chicago. The GENERAL was pulled between New York and Harrisburg by the GG-1 electric locomotives. West of Harrisburg the famous PRR K-4 Pacific Locomotives assumed the task. The Sleeping car section of the two GENERAL consists was comprised of the following cars.

SALMON P. CHASE 14 Section Stream-lined Heavyweight Sleeping Car

MAIDEN BROOK 12 Duplex Single Room 5 Double Bedroom Sleeping Car

IMPERIAL RANGE 4 Compartment 2 Drawing Room 4 double Bedroom Sleeping Car

COLONIAL CONGRESS 1 Drawing Room 3 Double Bedroom Bar 26 Seat Lounge Car


HEAVYWEIGHT DINER

HEAVYWEIGHT DINER

COLONIAL GOVERNORS 1 Drawing Room 3 Double Bedroom Bar 26 Seat Lounge Car

PHILADELPHIA COUNTY 13 Double Bedroom Sleeping Car

CITY OF NEWARK 18 Roomette Sleeping Car

LAWMAKER 12 Section 1 Drawing Room Streamlined Heavyweight sleeping car (Pittsburgh - Chicago)

SECOND CONSIST

ELBERT H. GARY 14 Section Streamlined Heavyweight Sleeping Car

MAJOR BROOK 12 Duplex Single Room 5 Double Bedroom Sleeping Car

IMPERIAL TERRACE 4 Compartment 2 drawing Room 4 Double Bedroom Sleeping Car

COLONIAL FATHERS 1 Drawing Room 3 Double Bedroom Bar 26 Seat Lounge Car

HEAVYWEIGHT DINER

HEAVYWEIGHT DINER

COLONIAL STATESMEN 1 Drawing Room 3 Double Bedroom Bar 26 Seat Lounge Car

LANCASTER COUNTY 13 Double Bedroom Sleeping Car

CITY OF LOUISVILLE 18 Roomette Sleeping Car

HENRY CLAY 12 Section 1 Drawing Room Streamlined Heavyweight Sleeping Car (Chicago - Pittsburgh)

The BROADWAY LIMITED was the next of the Fleet of Modernism trains to depart from Pennsylvania Station and it was the flagship of the fleet. Discounting the two head end cars each first day inaugural consist was seven cars as follows.

CITY OF NEW YORK 18 Roomette Sleeping Car

CITY OF COLUMBUS 18 Roomette Sleeping Car

HARBOR POINT 2 Double Bedroom Secretary Room Barber Shop Shower Bar 28 Seat Lounge Car

4420 Modernized Heavyweight Dining Car

IMPERIAL PARK 4 Compartment 2 Drawing Room 4 Double Bedroom Sleeping Car

ALLEGHENY COUNTY 13 Double Bedroom Sleeping Car

METROPOLITAN VIEW 2 Master Room 1 Double Bedroom Buffet 25 Seat Lounge Observation

SECOND CONSIST

CITY OF CINCINNATI 18 Roomette Sleeping Car

CITY OF PITTSBURGH 18 Roomette Sleeping Car

HARBOR SPRINGS 2 Double Bedroom Secretary room Barber Shop Shower Bar 28 Seat Lounge Car

4423 Modernized Heavyweight Diner

IMPERIAL POINT 4 Compartment 2 Drawing Room 4 Double Bedroom Sleeping Car

NEW YORK COUNTY 13 Double Bedroom Sleeping Car

SKYLINE VIEW 2 Master Room 1 Double Bedroom Buffet 25 Seat Lounge Observation

The third train to depart from New York Pennsylvania Station was the SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS that required three sets of equipment for daily service as follows.

THOMAS A. HENDRICKS 14 Section Streamlined Heavyweight Sleeping Car

JOSEPH D. OLIVER 12 Section 1 Drawing Room Streamlined Heavyweight Sleeping Car

CITY OF YOUNGSTOWN 18 Roomette Sleeping Car

COLONIAL MANSIONS 1 Drawing Room 3 Double Bedroom Bar 26 Seat Lounge Car

HEAVYWEIGHT DINER

MEADOW BROOK 12 Duplex Roomette 5 Double Bedroom Sleeping Car

WHITE OAK 8 Section 1 Drawing Room 2 Compartment Streamlined Heavy-weight Sleeping Car

JACK'S NARROWS 2 Drawing Room 1 Double Bedroom 1 Compartment Buffet 23 Seat Lounge Observation

SECOND CONSIST

BARTHOLOMEW PENROSE 14 Section Streamlined Heavy-weight Sleeping Car

RICHARD MONTGOMERY 12 Section 1 Drawing Room Streamlined Heavyweight Sleeping Car

CITY OF WILMINGTON 18 Roomette Sleeping Car

COLONIAL INNS 1 Drawing Room 3 Double Bedroom Bar 26 Seat Lounge Car

HEAVYWEIGHT DINER

MAR BROOK 12 Duplex Single Room 5 Double Bedroom Sleeping Car

WATER OAK 8 Section 1 Drawing Room 2 Compartment Streamlined Heavy-weight Sleeping Car

LEWISTOWN NARROWS 2 Drawing Room 1 Double Bedroom 1 Compartment Buffet 23 Seat Lounge Observation

THIRD CONSIST

GEORGE ROGERS CLARK 14 Section Heavyweight Stream-lined Sleeping Car

JOHN MORTON 12 Section 1 Drawing Room Heavyweight Streamlined Sleeping Car

CITY OF AKRON 18 Roomette Sleeping Car

COLONIAL DAMES 1 Drawing Room 3 Double Bedroom Bar 26 Seat Lounge Car

HEAVYWEIGHT DINER

MAPLE BROOK 12 Duplex Single Room 5 Double Bedroom Sleeping Car

GRAY OAK 8 Section 2 Compartment 1 Drawing Room Streamlined Heavy-weight Sleeping Car

JUNIATA NARROWS 2 Drawing Room 1 Double Bedroom 1 Compartment Buffet 23 Seat Lounge Observation

Departing from Washington and Chicago that same day was the last of the new Fleet of Modernism trains the LIBERTY LIMITED. The sleeping car section of this train was as follows.

MARCUS A. HANNA 14 Section Streamlined Heavyweight Sleeping Car

4500 Streamlined Dining Car

MILL BROOK 12 Duplex Single Room 5 Double Bedroom Sleeping Car

COLONIAL STAGES 1 Drawing Room 3 Double Bedroom Bar 26 Seat Lounge Car

MORNING BROOK 12 Duplex Single Room 5 Double Room Sleeping Car

CASCADE FALLS 10 Roomette 5 Double Bedroom Sleeping Car

FEDERAL VIEW 2 Master Room 1 Double Bedroom Buffet 25 Seat Lounge Observation

SECOND CONSIST

CYRUS K. McCORMICK 14 Section Streamlined Heavyweight Sleeping Car

MIRROR BROOK 12 Duplex Single Room 5 Double Bedroom Sleeping Car

4501 Streamlined Dining Car

COLONIAL TRAILS 1 Drawing Room 3 Double Bedroom Bar 26 Seat Lounge Car

MINERAL BROOK 12 Duplex Single Room 5 Double Bedroom Sleeping Car

CASCADE PARK 10 Roomette 5 double Bedroom Sleeping Car

WASHINGTON VIEW 2 Master Room 1 Double Bedroom 1 Compartment Buffet 25 Seat Lounge Observation

The following sleeping cars were those specifically built for the BROADWAY LIMITED.

18 ROOMETTE SLEEPING CARS Pullman Standard March 1938 Plan: 4068D Lot: 6539 (Built for and assigned to BROADWAY LIMITED)

CITY OF BALTIMORE

CITY OF CINCINNATI

CITY OF COLUMBUS

CITY OF NEW YORK

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA

CITY OF PITTSBURGH

CITY OF ST. LOUIS

CITY OF WASHINGTON

4 COMPARTMENT 2 DRAWING ROOM 4 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS Pullman Standard March 1938 Plan: 4069B Lot: 6540 (Built for and assigned to BROADWAY LIMITED)

IMPERIAL PARK

IMPERIAL PASS

IMPERIAL PLATEAU

IMPERIAL POINT

13 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS Pullman Standard April 1938 Plan: 4071A Lot: 6541 (Built for and assigned to BROADWAY LIMITED)

ALLEGHENY COUNTY

NEW YORK COUNTY

2 DOUBLE BEDROOM SECRETARY ROOM BARBER SHOP SHOWER BAR 28 SEAT LOUNGE CARS Pullman Standard May 1938 Plan: 4077 Lot: 6550 (Built for and assigned to BROADWAY LIMITED)

HARBOR POINT

HARBOR SPRINGS

2 MASTER ROOM 1 DOUBLE BEDROOM BUFFET 25 SEAT LOUNGE OBSERVATIONS Pullman Standard May 1938 Plan: 4080 Lot: 6548 (Built for and assigned to BROADWAY LIMITED)

METROPOLITAN VIEW

SKYLINE VIEW

The following listing of Heavyweight Sleeping Cars were streamlined by Pullman for the PRR Fleet of Modernism. Not only did these cars serve in those trains the PRR assigned them to other trains upgrading those trains external appearance. The following cars are known to have operated in the PITTSBURGHER, PHILADELPHIA NIGHT EXPRESS, and PITTSBURG NIGHT EXPRESS and many other trains.

14 SECTION SLEEPING CARS

ANDREW CARNEGIE

ANDREW SQUIRE

BARTHOLOMEW PENROSE

CYRUS H. McCORMICK

DAVID SINTON

ELBERT H. GARY

GEORGE ROGERS CLARK

HENRY WATTERSON

MARCUS A. HANNA

POTTER PALMER

SALMON P. CHASE

THOMAS A. HENDRICKS

12 SECTION 1 DRAWING ROOM SLEEPING CARS

ANDREW JACKSON

CHEVY CHASE

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

DANIEL WEBSTER

GEORGE ARMISTEAD

HENRY CLAY

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

JOHN EAGER HOWARD

JOHN JAY

JOHN MORTON

JOSEPH D. OLIVER

JOSEPH REED

LAWMAKER

NATHANEAL GREENE

NATHANIEL BACON

PAN-AMERICAN

RICHARD DALE

RICHARD MONTGOMERY

ROBERT MORRIS

ROGER WILLIAMS

THOMAS COOK

THOMAS PAINE

WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE

WILLIAM ELLERY

6 SECTION 6 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS

POPLAR ARBOR

POPLAR COUNTRY

POPLAR GORGE

POPLAR ISLE

POPLAR RANGE

POPLAR REALM

POPLAR SLOPE

POPLAR SQUARE

POPLAR VALE

POPLAR VILLA

8 SECTION 1 DRAWING ROOM 2 COMPARTMENT SLEEPING CARS

COUNCIL OAK

FOX OAKS

GRAY OAK

WATER OAK

WHITE OAK

10 SECTION 3 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS

VILLA BEAUTIFUL

VILLA COLONIAL

VILLA PALATIAL

6 SINGLE BEDROOM BUFFET LOUNGE CARS

SUMMIT GROVE

SUMMIT LAKE

1 DRAWING ROOM 1 COMPARTMENT BUFFET OBSERVATIONS

ANDREW W. MELLON

RICHARD BEATTY MELLON

The following lightweight streamlined sleeping cars all built by Pullman Standard were assigned to those other three Fleet of Modernism trains GENERAL, LIBERTY LIMITED, and SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS.

4 COMPARTMENT 2 DRAWING ROOM 4 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS Pullman Standard March 1938 Plan: 4069B Lot: 6540 (Built for and assigned to GENERAL)

IMPERIAL RANGE

IMPERIAL TERRACE

18 ROOMETTE SLEEPING CARS Pullman Standard March 1938 Plan: 4068D Lot: 6539 (Built for and assigned to GENERAL and SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS)
GENERAL

CITY OF LOUISVILLE

CITY OF NEWARK

SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS

CITY OF AKRON

CITY OF WILMINGTON

CITY OF YOUNGSTOWN

13 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS Pullman Standard April 1938 Plan: 4071A Lot: 6541 (Built for and assigned to GENERAL)

LANCASTER COUNTY

PHILADELPHIA COUNTY

10 ROOMETTE 5 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS Pullman Standard April 1938 Plan: 4072A Lot: 6542 (Built for and assigned to LIBERTY LIMITED)

CASCADE FALLS

CASCADE PARK

12 DUPLEX SINGLE ROOM 5 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS Pullman Standard April - May 1938 Plan: 4066 B Lot: 6538 (Built for and assigned to Fleet of Modernism)

GENERAL

MAIDEN BROOK

MAJOR BROOK

LIBERTY LIMITED

MILL BROOK

MINERAL BROOK

MIRROR BROOK

MORNING BROOK

SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS

MAPLE BROOK

MAR BROOK

MEADOW BROOK

1 DRAWING ROOM 3 DOUBLE BEDROOM BAR 26 SEAT LOUNGE CARS Pullman Standard May 1938 Plan: 4078 Lot: 6551 (Built for and assigned to Fleet of Modernism)

GENERAL

COLONIAL CONGRESS

COLONIAL FATHERS

COLONIAL GOVERNORS

COLONIAL STATESMEN

LIBERTY LIMITED

COLONIAL STAGES

COLONIAL TRAILS

SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS

COLONIAL DAMES

COLONIAL INNS

COLONIAL MANSIONS

2 MASTER ROOM 1 DOUBLE ROOM BUFFET 25 SEAT LOUNGE OBSERVATIONS Pullman Standard May 1938 Plan: 4080 Lot: 6548 (Built for and assigned to LIBERTY LIMITED)

FEDERAL VIEW

WASHINGTON VIEW

2 DRAWING ROOM 1 DOUBLE BEDROOM 1 COMPARTMENT BUFFET 23 SEAT LOUNGE OBSERVATIONS Pullman Standard May 1938 Plan: 4081 Lot: 6549 (Built for and assigned to SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS)

JUNIATA NARROWS

LEWISTOWN NARROWS

JACK'S NARROWS

Since the PRR was not interested in new lightweight stream-lined sleeping cars with Sections this was one of the reasons so many PRR overnight trains carried streamlined heavy-weights and heavyweights with sections. The main reason for this was the Government would only reimburse for travel in a lower berth at that time. The PRR like most railroads with service out of Washington received a great deal of Government business and was not about to lose any of it because they no longer carried Sleeping cars with sections.
Pleased with the new lightweight stream-lined sleeping cars received in 1938 the PRR immediately placed orders for additional new sleeping cars with eighteen CITY 18 roomette sleeping cars arriving in December 1938 just in time for the Christmas-New years rush.

18 ROOMETTE SLEEPING CARS Pullman Standard December 1938 Plan: 4068H Lot: 6563 (Built for and assigned to General Service)

CITY OF ALTOONA

CITY OF CAMDEN

CITY OF CANTON

CITY OF ELIZABETH

CITY OF ERIE

CITY OF FORT WAYNE

CITY OF GARY

CITY OF HARRISBURG

CITY OF JOHNSTOWN

CITY OF LANCASTER

CITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK

CITY OF NORFOLK

CITY OF READING

CITY OF TERRE HAUTE

CITY OF TRENTON

CITY OF WHEELING

CITY OF WILLIAMSPORT

CITY OF YORK

Additional new sleeping cars for operation in such trains as the PITTSBURGER and the other major overnight trains were ordered in 1938. The first new sleeping car orders began arriving in June 1939 and they were assigned to a general sleeping car pool to be assigned to the east west lines mostly between New York and Chicago but also trains between Pittsburgh - Chicago, New York - Cincinnati, Washington - Detroit and other routes. By the time the last of the prewar lightweight streamlined cars were delivered to the PRR between 1938 - 1940 they were operating 142 lightweight streamlined sleeping cars and another 60 streamlined heavy-weight sleeping cars for a total of 202. The 1939 cars listed below a majority of them went to the PITTSBURGHER the rest to general service.

12 DUPLEX SINGLE ROOM 5 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS Pullman Standard June 1939 Plan: 4066B Lot: 6566 (Built for and assigned to PITTSBURGHER and General Service)

MAGIC BROOK

MANOR BROOK

MARTIN BROOK

MAY BROOK

MIDDLE BROOK

MOOR BROOK

10 ROOMETTE 5 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS Pullman Standard June 1939 Plan: 4072B Lot: 6565 (Built for and assigned to PITTSBURGHER and General Service)

CASCADE FOREST

CASCADE GARDENS

CASCADE HILLS

CASCADE PASS

CASCADE TERRACE

CASCADE TRAILS

13 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS Pullman Standard June - July 1939 Plan: 4071B Lot: 6572 (Built for and assigned to PITTSBURGHER and General Service)

CAMBRIA COUNTY

HAMILTON COUNTY

JEFFERSON COUNTY

LAKE COUNTY

4 COMPARTMENT 2 DRAWING ROOM 4 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS Pullman Standard July - August 1939 Plan: 4069D Lot: 6571 (Built for and assigned to PITTSBURGHER and General Service)

IMPERIAL CREST

IMPERIAL LAWN

IMPERIAL MANTLE

IMPERIAL PATH

IMPERIAL TRAIL

IMPERIAL VIEW

The 1940 cars were added to the general service pool and many of the main east - west streamliners were assigned several of these lightweight stream-lined sleeping cars.

10 ROOMETTE 5 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS Pullman Standard July - August 1940 Plan: 4072C Lot: 6610 (Built for and assigned to General Service Pool)

CASCADE BAY

CASCADE BEND

CASCADE BOWER

CASCADE BRIM

CASCADE BRINK

CASCADE CANYON

CASCADE CHASM

CASCADE CLIFF

CASCADE COVE

CASCADE CRAG

CASCADE DEN

CASCADE ECHO

CASCADE GORGE

CASCADE HEIGHTS

CASCADE HOLLOW

CASCADE KNOLL

CASCADE LAKE

CASCADE LEDGE

CASCADE MANTLE

CASCADE MEADOW

CASCADE MELODY

CASCADE MIRAGE

CASCADE PEAK

CASCADE PINNACLE

CASCADE PLATEAU

CASCADE POND

CASCADE POOL

CASCADE RANGE

CASCADE RAPIDS

CASCADE RAVINE

CASCADE ROAR

CASCADE SLOPE

CASCADE TIMBER

12 DUPLEX SINGLE ROOM 5 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS Pullman Standard September 1940 Plan: 4066C Lot: 6611 (Built for and assigned to General Service Pool)

MARSH BROOK

MEMORY BROOK

MORROW BROOK

MYSTIC BROOK

6 DOUBLE BEDROOM BAR 20 SEAT LOUNGE CARS Pullman Standard September 1940 Plan: 4086A Lot: 6612 (Built for and assigned to General Service Pool)

BIRCH FALLS

CEDAR FALLS

CYPRESS FALLS

ELM FALLS

HEMLOCK FALLS

HICKORY FALLS

JUNIPER FALLS

LOCUST FALLS

MAPLE FALLS

OAK FALLS

PINE FALLS SPRUCE FALLS

SYCAMORE FALLS

How did the total of 202 lightweight and streamlined heavyweight sleeping cars compare to the other railroads streamlined sleeping car fleet at the beginning of WW II? The NYC matched the PRR with 142 lightweight stream-lined cars but they had no streamlined heavyweight sleeping cars. How did the PRR and NYC compare to the other railroads with streamlined sleeping cars at the beginning of WW II?

PRR 200, NYC 142, UP 97, AT&SF 92, SP 59, B&O 50, CRI&P 40, IC 20, C&NW 17, CB&Q 14, GM&O 5, KCS 5, ERIE 4, MP 4, C&S 3, FW&D 3, and D&RGW 2.

PRR Sleeper Lounge Observation JACK'S NARROWS built for the SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS was renamed WAKE ISLAND in March 1942 for the American defenders of that small Pacific Island eventually overwhelmed by Japanese forces.
In April 1943 Pullman rebuilt the interiors of BROADWAY LIMITED 2 Double Bedroom Secretary room Barber Shop Shower Bar 28 Seat lounge Cars HARBOR POINT and HARBOR SPRINGS. They were rebuilt to 5 Double Bedroom Buffet 26 seat Lounge cars. This work was done at the request of the war department as cars with only two sleeping car spaces were either to be rebuilt with additional revenue space or stored for the duration of the war. The PRR chose the former course of action while rival NYC stored several cars for the duration.
All prewar lightweight streamlined sleeping cars built for the PRR were from a single manufacturer Pullman Standard. This would not be the case following WW II as the PRR would purchase streamlined sleeping cars from all three major manufacturers American Car & Foundry, Budd Company, and Pullman Standard.
Deliveries of postwar lightweight streamlined sleeping cars began in April 1948 and the last PRR owned lightweight streamlined sleeping car was delivered in October 1950.
But before any of the new sleeping cars arrived an event took place that many said would never come to pass, that was through transcontinental sleeping cars service. The PRR was one of the major proponents of this service and operated the greatest number of through sleeping car routes. Besides the PRR in the east the NYC and B&O also offered through sleeping car services. The railroads in the west that took part in offering through car services were the C&NW-UP-SP, CB&Q-D&RGW-WP, CRI&P-SP, and AT&SF between Chicago and the West Coast carrying through sleeping cars originating in New York, and Washington.
The first of these services began March 31, 1946 using the PRR BROADWAY and Santa Fe CHIEF. The PRR assigned three IMPERIAL series cars IMPERIAL PARK, IMPERIAL PASS and IMPERIAL POINT to the through service, all were painted two tone gray for transcontinental service. The Santa Fe assigned HUALPAI, NASLINI, TCHIREGE, and TSANKAWI. This service became even more exclusive later when the Santa Fe switched the through cars from the CHIEF to the SUPER CHIEF. Beginning in February 1954 the Santa Fe assigned six new REGAL series 4 Compartment 4 Double Bedroom 2 drawing room cars to the service replacing both the older prewar Santa Fe and PRR cars as through cars. The six REGAL series cars initially assigned were REGAL CREST, REGAL LANE, REGAL LARK, REGAL MANOR, REGAL PASS and REGAL SPA.
Another service began March 31, 1946 was the PRR - CNW-UP route to Los Angeles using the PRR GOLDEN ARROW Westbound MAHATTAN LIMITED Eastbound and the LOS ANGELES LIMITED in both directions west of Chicago. Initially operated with heavyweight VILLA and POPLAR series cars they were replaced by 10-6 sleepers in February 1950. The cars were than assigned to the UP CITY OF LOS ANGELES west of Chicago. The UP 10-6 Sleeping cars assigned were PACIFIC COVE, PACIFIC COVE, PACIFIC GARDEN, PACIFIC HEIGHTS, and PACIFIC HILLS. For there part the PRR assigned STONEY RAPIDS and TIPPECANOE RAPIDS to the through service painting both cars in UP Yellow.
On the same startup date March 31, 1946 the PRR also began operating a 12-1 heavyweight from Washington to Los Angeles as well, this car ran originally in the ADMIRAL Westbound and RAINBOW Eastbound. Later the PRR switched the car to the LIBERTY LIMITED Westbound and PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED but this car never seemed to attract the passenger loading of other through cars and was discontinued in 1949.
The last through service begun on March 31, 1946 was the one using the OVERLAND west of Chicago to San Francisco. This service alternated days between the NYC and PRR east of Chicago. Initially the service was assigned heavy-weight 10 Section 1 Drawing Room 2 Compartment cars. Beginning March 1, 1950 the service was assigned 10-6 Sleeping cars. The NYC and PRR cars assigned were painted two-tone gray to match the OVERLAND. The NYC car assigned was PASSAIC RIVER and the PRR car was BUFFALO RAPIDS. The SP assigned 9037 and 9039. The three UP cars assigned were painted UP colors they were PACIFIC LODGE, PACIFIC UNION, and PACIFIC WATERS.
One day after the previously mentioned services began another San Francisco routing began using the NYC and PRR on alternate days east of Chicago and the CB&Q-D&RGW-WP route west of Chicago. Initially this service was provided using 10 Section 1 Drawing Room 2 Compartment heavyweight sleeping cars. In March 1949 the western service was streamlined using a train named the VISTA-DOME CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR? For their part the PRR purchased a single 10-6 sleeping car to match the other CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR cars. This car was named PRR SILVER RAPIDS. In order to provide daily through car service seven 10-6 sleeping cars were required. The CB&Q, WP and D&RGW provided two each. One of the D&RGW cars was leased to the NYC who owned no CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR cars to fulfill their obligation for one car for through service. The other cars assigned initially were CB&Q SILVER POINT and SILVER SHORE, WP SILVER BAY and SILVER SURF, and D&RGW SILVER CREEK and SILVER GLACIER.
The last through train service to the West Coast by way of Chicago began June 2, 1946 between Los Angeles and Chicago via the GOLDEN STATE operated by the CRI&P and SP. Each of the three operating roads assigned two 4-4-2 prewar streamlined sleeping cars to the service. For their part the PRR assigned IMPERIAL RANGE and IMPERIAL TERRACE. The SP assigned GOLDEN CAVERN and GOLDEN TERRACE trail while Rock Island assigned GOLDEN DIAL and GOLDEN FLEECE. In 1948 the new colors of the GOLDEN STATE became Red and Silver. The two PRR cars were repainted to match the GOLDEN STATE cars.
Another gateway to the west was opened in 1946 through St. Louis. But through service by way of St. Louis extended to Texas and Oklahoma primarily with one heavyweight car operating through to Mexico City by the MP. This service was discontinued when the MP streamlined their trains.
On July 7, 1946 the PRR and MP began joint service between New York and Houston-Galveston, New York and San Antonio, New York and El Paso, New York and Dallas, Washington and Fort Worth, and Washington and Houston. The PRR assigned a number of CASCADE series cars to these routes while other routes were initially operated with 8 Section 5 Double Bedroom, and 10 Section 1 Drawing Room 2 Compartment heavyweight sleeping cars. In June 1948 the PRR repainted eleven CASCADE series 10 Roomette 5 Double Bedroom Sleeping cars into the Blue and Gray of the MP for through service to Texas points. The eleven CASCADE series cars were:

CASCADE BOWER

CASCADE CLIFF

CASCADE COVE

CASCADE CRAG

CASCADE HOLLOW

CASCADE MANTLE

CASCADE MELODY

CASCADE PEAK

CASCADE PINNACLE

CASCADE POOL

CASCADE SLOPE

The PRR ordered fourteen 10-6 Sleeping cars for August - October 1950 delivery that were to be delivered painted in MP colors and assigned EAGLE names. Instead EAGLE PLAIN, EAGLE TRIBE, and EAGLE VIEW were delivered painted PRR Tuscan red with the names AMON G. CARTER, BLUE RAPIDS and BUFFALO RAPIDS respectively. American Car & Foundry delivered these cars to the PRR.

10 ROOMETTE 6 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS American Car & Foundry August - October 1950 Plan: 9008 Lot: 3200 (Built for and assigned to PENN TEXAS - TEXAS EAGLE service)

8430 EAGLE BEAM

8431 EAGLE BLUFF

8432 EAGLE CHARM

8433 EAGLE CHIEF

8434 EAGLE COVE

8435 EAGLE EYE

8436 EAGLE GRAND

8437 EAGLE HEAD

8438 EAGLE OAK

8439 EAGLE PARK

8440 EAGLE PASS

(Intended for PENN TEXAS - TEXAS EAGLE Service but diverted for other services)

8441 AMON G. CARTER intended name EAGLE PLAIN

8442 BLUE RAPIDS intended name EAGLE TRIBE

8443 BUFFALO RAPIDS intended name EAGLE VIEW

On that same date July 7, 1946 the PRR began joint service with the SL-SF and KATY as well. A through New York - San Antonio 8 Section 5 Double Bedroom car began running via the TEXAS SPECIAL. Later in May 1948 the new 14-4 Sleeping cars would take over. For there part the PRR assigned CASCADE MEADOW and CASCADE RANGE to the service and painted them to match the other TEXAS SPECIAL cars complete with shadow-line striping to simulate fluted stainless steel. In October 1950 the CASCADE series cars CASCADE MEADOW and CASCADE RANGE were replaced by PRR RAPIDS series 10-6 sleeping cars SWATARA RAPIDS, and TIOGA RAPIDS. These cars remained painted Tuscan Red until 1953 when they were repainted to match the other TEXAS SPECIAL cars.
The TEXAS SPECIAL through service ended October 1, 1958.
Another service begun that July 7, 1946 was the through service to Oklahoma City via the METEOR. Initially operated with 10 Section 3 Double Bedroom Sleeping cars the service later received PRR CASCADE series cars CASCADE BRIM and CASCADE RAVINE while for their part the SL-SF assigned 14-4 sleeping cars. This service was cut back to Tulsa and discontinued altogether in 1949.
In October 1949 the PRR and L&N inaugurated through streamlined sleeping cars between New York and Louisville, Memphis, and Nashville. The cars operated east of Cincinnati over the PRR and switched to the L&N at that point. Both the L&N and PRR assigned 10-6 sleeping cars to these services with all cars painted PRR Tuscan red. New York - Memphis Service operated with PRR cars WILL RAPIDS, SHENANGO RAPIDS, SHERMAN RAPIDS and L&N KENTUCKY RIVER. New York-Louisville service was assigned PRR TUSCARORA RAPIDS, RARITAN RAPIDS and L&N GREEN RIVER.
New York - Nashville service was operated with PRR TOWANDA RAPIDS, TURTLE RAPIDS and L&N GREEN RAPIDS. New York - Nashville service was discontinued March 1, 1954. New York - Memphis service ended July 14, 1956 and New York - Louisville service ended April 27, 1958.
The first new postwar sleeping cars delivered to the PRR were seven 21 Roomette sleeping cars delivered by American Car & Foundry in April - May 1948. These cars were assigned to replace 18 Roomette sleeping cars operated in prewar trains.

21 ROOMETTE SLEEPING CARS American Car & Foundry April - May 1948 Plan: 9010 Lot: 2981 (Built for and assigned to General Service)

VINCENNES INN

WARSAW INN

WILKESBARRE INN

WILKINSBURG INN

WOOSTER INN

XENIA INN

ZANESVILLE INN

Next was an order for fifteen IMPERIAL series 4 Compartment 2 drawing Room 4 Double Bedroom sleeping cars for assignment to the BROADWAY LIMITED. LIBERTY LIMITED GENERAL and other trains. These postwar IMPERIAL series cars differed from the prewar cars in that all rooms had private bathroom annexes.

4 COMPARTMENT 2 DRAWING ROOM 4 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS American Car & Foundry September - December 1948 Plan: 9009 Lot: 2982 (Built for and assigned to replace prewar cars of this type in premier trains)

IMPERIAL BENCH

IMPERIAL BOWER

IMPERIAL BRINK

IMPERIAL CLIFF

IMPERIAL FIELDS

IMPERIAL HILLS

IMPERIAL LEA

IMPERIAL LOCH

IMPERIAL MEADOWS

IMPERIAL PEAK

IMPERIAL RIDGE

IMPERIAL ROAD

IMPERIAL TERRAIN

IMPERIAL TREES

IMPERIAL VALE

Pullman Standard delivered 18 10-6 sleeping cars in the new RAPIDS series between November 1948 and January 1949. This was the first order for this type car received by the PRR and would become the postwar replacement for the prewar CASCADE series 10-5 sleeping cars.

10 ROOMETTE 6 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS Pullman Standard November 1948 - January 1949 Plan: 4140 Lot: 6792 (Built for and assigned to General Service)

OCTORARO RAPIDS

RACCOON RAPIDS

RARITAN RAPIDS

SANGAMON RAPIDS

SCHUYLKILL RAPIDS

SHENANGO RAPIDS

SHERMAN RAPIDS

STONEY RAPIDS

SWATARA RAPIDS

TIOGA RAPIDS

TIPPECANOE RAPIDS

TOWANDA RAPIDS

TURTLE RAPIDS

TUSCARORA RAPIDS

WHEELING RAPIDS

WILLS RAPIDS

JUNIATA RAPIDS

MACKINAW RAPIDS

Probably the most famous four postwar cars delivered to the PRR were the two HARBOR series 3 Double Bedroom Shower Barber Shop Secretary's Room Buffet 20 Seat Lounge cars HARBOR COVE and HARBOR REST. They were delivered to the PRR in December 1948 by Pullman Standard. In January 1949 the new VIEW series Sleeper lounge Observations with the squared off tapered end were delivered MOUNTAIN VIEW and TOWER VIEW. They featured two Master Rooms as the prewar cars had but the new Bedroom in each car had private bathroom annex. There was also a Buffet and Lounge with seating for 24. These two cars were probably the two most photographed postwar cars belonging to the PRR. Both of these famous car types were built for and assigned to the postwar BROADWAY LIMITED consists.

SECRETARY ROOM SHOWER BARBER SHOP 3 DOUBLED BEDROOM BUFFET 20 SEAT LOUNGE CARS Pullman Standard December 1948 Plan: 4141 Lot: 6792 (Built for and assigned to BROADWAY LIMITED)

HARBOR COVE

HARBOR REST

! DOUBLE BEDROOM 2 MASTER ROOM BUFFET 24 SEAT LOUNGE OBSERVATIONS Pullman Standard January 1949 Plan: 4133 Lot: 6792 (Built for and assigned to BROADWAY LIMITED)

MOUNTAIN VIEW

TOWER VIEW

The three prewar NARROWS series sleeper Lounge Observations were assigned new names in January - February 1949 as follows.

JANUARY 1949

SAMUEL VAUGHN MERRICK ex PRR WAKE ISLAND originally PRR JACK'S NARROWS

FEBRUARY 1949

WILLIAM CHAMBERLIN PATTERSON originally PRR JUNIATA NARROWS

JOHN EDGAR THOMSON originally PRR LEWISTOWN NARROWS

One other car received a new name in April 1949 that car was the FALLS series car OAK FALLS renamed BUTTERNUT FALLS.
The largest single order for sleeping cars for the PRR following WW II were fifty 21 Roomette sleeping cars from Budd delivered between January - June 1949 These cars replaced all of the 18 Roomette prewar cars in the premier trains. These cars were all painted in the standard Tuscan Red scheme.

21 ROOMETTE SLEEPING CARS Budd Company January - June 1949 Plan: 9513 Lot: 9967-024 (Built for and assigned to General Service)

ALLIANCE INN

ANDERSON INN

ASHTABULA INN

BEAVER FALLS INN

BEDFORD INN

BRADDOCK INN

BUCYRUS INN

BUTLER INN

CAMBRIDGE INN

CARNEGIE INN

CHAMBERSBURG INN

CHESTER INN

COATESVILLE INN

COLLINSVILLE INN

COSHOCTON INN

CULVER INN

ELMIRA INN

FRANKLIN INN

GRAND RAPIDS INN

GREENSBURG INN

HAGERSTOWN INN

HAMILTON INN

JEANETTE INN

KANE INN

KOKOMO INN

LATROBE INN

LEWISTOWN INN

LIMA INN

LOCK HAVEN INN

LOGANSPORT INN

MANSFIELD INN

MARIETTA INN

MASSILLON INN

NEW CASTLE INN

NORRISTOWN INN

OLEAN INN

PETOSKEY INN

PIQUA INN

PRINCETON INN

RAVENNA INN

SALEM INN

SEWICKLEY INN

SHARON INN

STEUBENVILLE INN

SUNBURY INN

TIFFIN INN

TYRONE INN

UNIONTOWN INN

URBANA INN

VAN WERT INN

The postwar replacement for the 12 Duplex Single Room 5 Double Bedroom car only had 4 Double Bedrooms due to the enclosed bathroom annex's in the Double Bedrooms. The PRR was the only railroad to buy these cars postwar and assigned them to premium service trains.

12 DUPLEX SINGLE ROOM 4 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS Pullman Standard January - April 1949 Plan: 4130 Lot: 6792 (Built for and assigned to premium service trains)

CABIN CREEK

CEDAR CREEK

CENTER CREEK

CHARTIERS CREEK

CHATHAM CREEK

CHERRY CREEK

CHICKIES CREEK

CHIMNEY CREEK

CHIPPEWA CREEK

CRYSTAL CREEK

CLEAR CREEK

CLIFF CREEK

CLOUD CREEK

CLUB CREEK

CLYDE CREEK

COLDWATER CREEK

COLLEGE CREEK

CONEWAGO CREEK

CONNOQUENES-SING CREEK

CONODOGUINET CREEK

COUNTRY CREEK

CRANE CREEK

CROSS CREEK

CYPRESS CREEK

The PRR purchased postwar Sleeper Lounge Observations for three of their premium service trains the CINCINNATI LIMITED, LIBERTY LIMITED and SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS. These cars with 2 Drawing Rooms 1 Compartment 1 Double Bedroom Buffet 25 seat Lounge Observations were delivered by Pullman Standard in February March 1949. They were originally intended to carry NARROWS suffix names but before delivery the cars received names of noted PRR personalities.

2 DRAWING ROOM 1 COMPARTMENT 1 DOUBLE BEDROOM BUFFET 25 SEAT LOUNGE OBSERVATIONS Pullman Standard February - March 1949 Plan: 4134 Lot: 6792 (Built for and assigned to specific trains)

CINCINNATI LIMITED

GEORGE BROOK ROBERTS intended name BRANDYWINE NARROWS

FRANK THOMSEN intended name CONEMAUGH NARROWS

LIBERTY LIMITED

THOMAS ALEXANDER SCOTT intended name ALLEGHENY NARROWS

ALEXANDER JOHNSON CASSATT intended name OHIO NARROWS

SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS

JAMES McCREA intended name POTOMAC NARROWS

SAMUEL REA intended name SCHUYLKILL NARROWS

WILLIAM WALLACE ATTERBURY intended name SUSQUEHANNA NARROWS

Four 10 Roomette 6 Double Bedroom Sleeping cars arrived from American Car & Foundry in March 1949. They were assigned to General Service.

10 ROOMETTE 6 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEEPING CARS American Car & Foundry March 1949 Plan: 9008 Lot: 3079 (Built for and assigned to General service)

FRENCH RAPIDS

GENESSEE RAPIDS

GREEN RAPIDS

HURON RAPIDS

Additional 10-6 sleeping cars arrived from Pullman Standard in March - April 1949 as follows.

10 ROOMETTE 6 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS Pullman Standard March - April 1949 Plan: 4129 Lot: 6792 (Built for and assigned to General Service)

CATAWISSA RAPIDS

CLARION RAPIDS

CLEARFIELD RAPIDS

CONEMAUGH RAPIDS

CONESTOGA RAPIDS

CONEWEGO RAPIDS

FISHING RAPIDS

ILLINOIS RAPIDS

CYRUS H. K. CURTIS intended name IROQUOIS RAPIDS

KALAMAZOO RAPIDS

KANKAKEE RAPIDS

KASKASKIA RAPIDS

LEHIGH RAPIDS

LITTLE MIAMI RAPIDS

MANISTEE RAPIDS

MONONGAHELA RAPIDS

MUSKEGON RAPIDS

New FALLS series 6 Double Bedroom Buffet 20 seat Lounge cars arrived from Pullman Standard between March - May 1949 for assignment to general service in such trains as the ADMIRAL etc.

6 DOUBLE BEDROOM BUFFET 20 SEAT LOUNGE CARS Pullman Standard March - May 1949 Plan: 4131 Lot: 6792 (Built for and assigned to secondary service trains)

ALDER FALLS

ASPEN FALLS

BALSAM FALLS

BEECH FALLS

CATALPA FALLS

FIR FALLS

LARCH FALLS

LINDEN FALLS

PALM FALLS

SASSAFRAS FALLS

SUMAC FALLS

The PRR received eight COLONIAL series 1 Drawing Room 3 Double Bedroom Buffet 27 seat Lounge cars from Pullman Standard in May-June 1949. These cars were assigned to the SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS, LIBERTY LIMITED, and GENERAL.

1 DRAWING ROOM 3 DOUBLE BEDROOM BUFFET 27 SEAT LOUNGE CARS Pullman Standard May - June 1949 Plan: 4132 Lot: 6792 (Built for and assigned to Premium service trains)

COLONIAL ARMS

COLONIAL CABINS

COLONIAL CRAFTS

COLONIAL DOORWAYS

COLONIAL FLAGS

COLONIAL HOUSES

COLONIAL LANTERNS

COLONIAL SCOUTS

Following WW II the decision was made that the SILVER METEOR would begin operating with lightweight streamlined sleeping cars as soon as possible. They would replace the heavyweight sleeping cars then operating in these otherwise all lightweight trains. At the same time two additional stream-liners would be instituted by the SAL the SILVER COMET between New York and Birmingham, and the SILVER STAR between New York and Florida. Each railroad that the trains operated over provided new lightweight sleeping cars for these services in proportion to the miles traveled over that road. The PRR provided six Budd built 10-6 sleeping cars to the SAL-RF&P-PRR pool of cars assigned to the SILVER METEOR etc.

10 ROOMETTE 6 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS Budd June - August 1949 Plan: 9503 Lot: 9662-025 (Built for and assigned to SAL trains)

ATHENS

BRADENTON

CHESTER

CLINTON

ELBERTON

GREENWOOD

In August 1949 PRR received a pair of 10-6 stainless steel sleeping cars from Budd they were operated for many years in Florida trains of the ACL and SAL during peak travel periods. At other times the two cars ran in general service.

10 ROOMETTE 6 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS Budd Company August 1949 (Built for and assigned to General Service)

SCIOTA RAPIDS

STURGEON RAPIDS

In September - October 1949 Pullman Standard delivered eight 10-6 sleeping cars to the PRR for service in SOUTHERN trains primarily the CRESCENT LIMITED a New York - New Orleans train that operated over the PRR between Washington and New York. The eight sleeping cars owned by the PRR operated in the four consists of the CRESCENT LIMITED.

10 ROOMETTE 6 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS Pullman Standard September - October 1949 Plan: 4140 Lot: 6814 (Built for and assigned to CRESCENT LIMITED)
BIRCH RIVER

BUSH RIVER

DELAWARE RIVER

MIDDLE RIVER

PATAPSCO RIVER

RARITAN RIVER

SCHUYLKILL RIVER

SUSQUEHANNA RIVER

In September - October 1949 the PRR received eight sleeping cars for service in ACL trains to and from Florida. Six of the cars were 10-6 sleeping cars and the other two were 21 Roomette sleeping cars. They were built for assignment to the winter only FLORIDA SPECIAL and year round WEST COAST CHAMPION and summers assigned to the EAST COAST CHAMPIONS as well.

21 ROOMETTE SLEEPING CARS Pullman Standard September - October 1949 Plan: 4156A Lot: 6809 (Built for and assigned to FLORIDA SPECIAL, EAST COAST CHAMPION, and WEST COAST CHAMPION)

GOVERNORS ISLAND

STATEN ISLAND

10 ROOMETTE 6 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS Pullman Standard October 1949 Plan: 4140 Lot: 6809 (Built for and assigned to FLORIDA SPECIAL, WEST COAST CHAMPION, and EAST COAST CHAMPION)

BALTIMORE COUNTY

BUCKS COUNTY

CHESTER COUNTY

DELAWARE COUNTY

HUDSON COUNTY

UNION COUNTY

In February - March 1950 two 14 roomette 2 Drawing Room cars arrived from American Car & foundry for service in the FLORIDA SPECIAL and EAST COAST CHAMPION. These two sleeping cars were the last Florida assigned cars delivered to the PRR.

14 ROOMETTE 2 DRAWING ROOM SLEEPING CARS American Car & Foundry February - March 1950 Plan: 9006 Lot: 3098 (Built for and assigned to FLORIDA SPECIAL - EAST COAST CHAMPION)

ANACOSTIA RIVER

HACKENSACK RIVER

The PRR received five 10 Roomette 6 Double Bedroom Sleeping cars in 1950 in two different lots from American Car & Foundry at that would be the last new sleeping cars ever purchased by the PRR.

10 ROOMETTE 6 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CARS American Car & Foundry September - October 1950 Plan: 9008 Lot: 3200 (Built for and assigned to General Service)
ALLEGHENY RAPIDS
MISSISSIPPI RAPIDS
OHIO RAPIDS
PENNS RAPIDS

10 ROOMETTE 6 DOUBLE BEDROOM SLEEPING CAR American Car & Foundry October 1950 Plan: 9008 Lot: 3212 (Built for and assigned to General Service)
MAHONING RAPIDS

The following postwar lightweight streamlined sleeping cars are known to have been assigned to the BROADWAY LIMITED.

GRAND RAPIDS INN

MASSILON INN

RAVENNA INN

SHARON INN

SHUYLKILL RAPIDS

CATAWISSA RAPIDS

CLARION RAPIDS

CLEARFIELD RAPIDS

CONEMAUGH RAPIDS

LITTLE MIAMI RAPIDS

MANISTEE RAPIDS

CABIN CREEK

COLLEGE CREEK

IMPERIAL BOWERS

IMPERIAL FIELDS

IMPERIAL TERRAIN

IMPERIAL TREES

The PRR assigned the older prewar sleeping cars to such trains SOUTHLAND, PENN TEXAS, MANHATTAN LIMITED, CLEVELANDER, STATESMEN, AMERICAN, DETROIT EXPRESS, OHION, DOMINION EXPRESS, PITTSBURGH NIGHT EXPRESS, PHILADELPHIA NIGHT EXPRESS, RED ARROW NORTHERN ARROW, and GOLDEN TRIANGLE.
The PRR assigned the postwar sleeping cars to BROADWAY LIMITED, SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS, CINCINNATI LIMITED, PITTSBURGHER, LIBERTY LIMITED, GENERAL, GOLDEN TRIANGLE, and ST. LOUISIAN. Many of the trains mentioned above operated with both postwar and prewar sleeping cars. There were still other overnight trains on the PRR that were assigned heavyweight sleeping cars right through the 1950's.
Beginning in 1950 the PRR assigned 8000 series numbers to Sleeping cars for accounting purposes but the cars never actually wore the numbers. The sleeping cars are divided by prewar sleeping cars and postwar sleeping cars just as the PRR numbering system divided them.

Prewar Sleeping Cars

8000 ALLEGHENY COUNTY

8001 CAMBRIA COUNTY

8002 HAMILTON COUNTY

8003 JEFFERSON COUNTY

8004 LAKE COUNTY

8005 LANCASTER COUNTY

8006 NEW YORK COUNTY

8007 PHILADELPHIA COUNTY

8008 IMPERIAL CREST

8009 IMPERIAL LAWN

8010 IMPERIAL MANTLE

8011 IMPERIAL PARK

8012 IMPERIAL PASS

8013 IMPERIAL PATH

8014 IMPERIAL PLATEAU

8015 IMPERIAL POINT

8016 IMPERIAL RANGE

8017 IMPERIAL TERRACE

8018 IMPERIAL TRAIL

8019 IMPERIAL VIEW

8020 MAJIC BROOK

8021 MAIDEN BROOK

8022 MAJOR BROOK

8023 MANOR BROOK

8024 MAPLE BROOK

8025 MAR BROOK

8026 MARSH BROOK

8027 MARTIN BROOK

8028 MAY BROOK

8029 MEADOW BROOK

8030 MEMORY BROOK

8031 MIDDLE BROOK

8032 MILL BROOK

8033 MINERAL BROOK

8034 MIRROR BROOK

8035 MOOR BROOK

8036 MORNING BROOK

8037 MORROW BROOK

8038 MYSTIC BROOK

8039 CITY OF AKRON

8040 CITY OF ALTOONA

8041 CITY OF BALTIMORE

8042 CITY OF CAMDEN

8043 CITY OF CANTON

8044 CITY OF CINCINNATI

8045 CITY OF COLUMBUS

8046 CITY OF ELIZABETH

8047 CITY OF ERIE

8048 CITY OF FORT WAYNE

8049 CITY OF GARY

8050 CITY OF HARRISBURG

8051 CITY OF JOHNSTOWN

8052 CITY OF LANCASTER

8053 CITY OF LOUISVILLE

8054 CITY OF NEWARK

8055 CITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK

8056 CITY OF NEW YORK

8057 CITY OF NORFOLK

8058 CITY OF PHILADELPHIA

8059 CITY OF PITTSBURGH

8060 CITY OF READING

8061 CITY OF ST. LOUIS

8062 CITY OF TERRE HAUTE

8063 CITY OF TRENTON

8064 CITY OFWASHINGTON

8065 CITY OF WHEELING

8066 CITY OF WILLIAMSPORT

8067 CITY OF WILMINGTON

8068 CITY OF YORK

8069 CITY OF YOUNGSTOWN

8070 CASCADE BAY

8071 CASCADE BEND

8072 CASCADE BOWER

8073 CASCADE BRIM

8074 CASCADE BRINK

8075 CASCADE CANYON

8076 CASCADE CHASM

8077 CASCADE CLIFF

8078 CASCADE COVE

8079 CASCADE CRAG

8080 CASCADE DEN

8081 CASCADE ECHO

8082 CASCADE FALLS

8083 CASCADE FOREST

8084 CASCADE GARDENS

8085 CASCADE GORGE

8086 CASCADE HEIGHTS

8087 CASCADE HILLS

8088 CASCADEHOLLOW

8089 CASCADE KNOLL

8090 CASCADE LAKE

8091 CASCADE LEDGE

8092 CASCADE MANTLE

8093 CASCADE MEADOW

8094 CASCADE MELODY

8095 CASCADE MIRAGE

8096 CASCADE PARK

8097 CASCADE PASS

8098 CASCADE PEAK

8099 CASCADE PINNACLE

8100 CASCADE PLATEAU

8101 CASCADE POND

8102 CASCADE POOL

8103 CASCADE RANGE

8104 CASCADE RAPIDS

8105 CASCADE RAVINE

8106 CASCADE ROAR

8107 CASCADE SLOPE

8108 CASCADE TERRACE

8109 CASCADE TIMBER

8110 CASCADE TRAILS

8111 WILLIAM CHAMBERLIN PATTERSON

8112 JOHN EDGAR THOMSON

8113 SAMUEL VAUGHN MERRICK

8114 FEDERAL VIEW

8115 METROPOLITAN VIEW

8116 SKYLINE VIEW

8117 WASHINGTON VIEW

8118 HARBOR POINT

8119 HARBOR SPRINGS

8120 COLONIAL CONGRESS

8121 COLONIAL DAMES

8122 COLONIAL FATHERS

8123 COLONIAL GOVERNORS

8124 COLONIAL INNS

8125 COLONIAL MANSIONS

8126 COLONIAL STAGES

8127 COLONIAL STATESMEN

8128 COLONIAL TRAILS

8129 BIRCH FALLS

8130 CEDAR FALLS

8131 CYPRESS FALLS

8132 ELM FALLS

8133 HEMLOCK FALLS

8134 HICKORY FALLS

8135 JUNIPER FALLS

8136 LOCUST FALLS

8137 MAPLE FALLS

8138 BUTTERNUT FALLS

8139 PINE FALLS

8140 SPRUCE FALLS

8141 SYCAMORE FALLS


POSTWAR PRR STREAMLINED SLEEPING CARS

8241 ALLIANCE INN

8242 ANDERSON INN

8243 ASHTABULA INN

8244 BEAVER FALLS INN

8245 BEDFORD INN

8246 BRADDOCK INN

8247 BUCYRUS INN

8248 BUTLER INN

8249 CAMBRIDGE INN

8250 CARNEGIE INN

8251 CHAMBERSBURG INN

8252 CHESTER INN

8253 COATESVILLE INN

8254 COLLINSVILLE INN

8255 COSHOCTON INN

8256 CULVER INN

8257 ELMIRA INN

8258 FRANKLIN INN

8259 GRAND RAPIDS INN

8260 GREENSBURG INN

8261 HAGERSTOWN INN

8262 HAMILTON INN

8263 JEANETTE INN

8264 CINCINNATI INN

8265 KOKOMO INN

8266 LATROBE INN

8267 LEWISTOWN INN

8268 LIMA INN

8269 LOCKHAVEN INN

8270 LOGANSPORT INN

8271 MANSFIELD INN

8272 MARIETTA INN

8273 MASSILON INN

8274 NEW CASTLE INN

8275 NORRISTOWN INN

8276 OLEAN INN

8277 PETOSKEY INN

8278 PIQUA INN

8279 PRINCETON INN

8280 RAVENNA INN

8282 SALEM INN

8283 SHARON INN

8284 STEUBENVILLE INN

8285 SUNBURY INN

8286 TIFFIN INN

8287 TYRONE INN

8288 UNIONTOWN INN

8289 URBANA INN

8290 VAN WERT INN

8291 VINCENNES INN

8292 WARSAW INN

8293 WILKES BARRE INN

8294 WILKINSBURG INN

8295 WOOSTER INN

8296 XENIA INN

8297 ZANESVILLE INN

8298 GOVERNORS ISLAND

8299 STATEN ISLAND

8300 CATAWISSA RAPIDS

8301 CLARION RAPIDS

8302 CLEARFIELD RAPIDS

8303 CONEMAUGH RAPIDS

8304 CONESTOGA RAPIDS

8305 CONEWAGO RAPIDS

8306 FISHING RAPIDS

8307 ILLINOIS RAPIDS

8308 CYRUS H. K. CURTIS

8309 KALAMAZOO RAPIDS

8310 KANKAKEE RAPIDS

8311 KASKASKIA RAPIDS

8312 LEHIGH RAPIDS

8313 LITTLE MIAMI RAPIDS

8314 MANISTEE RAPIDS

8315 MONONGAHELA RAPIDS

8316 MUSKEGON RAPIDS

8317 OCTORARO RAPIDS

8318 RACCOON RAPIDS

8319 RARITAN RAPIDS

8320 SANGAMON RAPIDS

8321 SCHUYLKILL RAPIDS

8322 SHENANGO RAPIDS

8323 SHERMAN RAPIDS

8324 STONEY RAPIDS

8325 SWATARA RAPIDS

8326 TIOGA RAPIDS

8327 TIPPECANOE RAPIDS

8328 TOWANDA RAPIDS

8329 TURTLE RAPIDS

8330 TUSCARORA RAPIDS

8331 WHEELING RAPIDS

8332 WILLS RAPIDS

8333 ATHENS

8334 BRADENTON

8335 CHESTER

8336 CLINTON

8337 ELBERTON

8338 GREENWOOD

8339 FRENCH RAPIDS

8340 GENESEE RAPIDS

8341 GREEN RAPIDS

8342 HURON RAPIDS

8343 JUNIATA RAPIDS

8344 MACKINAW RAPIDS

8345 CHESTER COUNTY

8346 BALTIMORE COUNTY

8347 BUCKS COUNTY

8348 DELAWARE COUNTY

8349 UNION COUNT

8350 HUDSON COUNTY

8351 BIRCH RIVER

8352 BUSH RIVER

8353 DELAWARE RIVER

8354 MIDDLE RIVER

8355 PATAPSCO RIVER

8356 RARITAN RIVER

8357 SCHUYLKILL RIVER

8358 SUSQUEHANNA RIVER

8359 ANACOSTIA RIVER

8360 HACKENSACK RIVER

8361 CABIN CREEK

8362 CEDAR CREEK

8363 CENTER CREEK

8364 CHARTIERS CREEK

8365 CHATHAM CREEK

8366 CHERRY CREEK

8367 CHICKIES CREEK

8368 CHIMNEY CREEK

8369 CHIPPEWA CREEK

8370 CRYSTAL CREEK

8371 CLEAR CREEK

8372 CLIFF CREEK

8373 CLOUD CREEK

8374 CLUB CREEK

8375 CLYDE CREEK

8376 COLDWATER CREEK

8377 COLLEGE CREEK

8378 CONEWAGO CREEK

8379 CONNOQUENES-SING CREEK

8380 CONODOGUINET CREEK

8381 COUNTRY CREEK

8382 CRANE CREEK

8383 CROSS CREEK

8384 CYPRESS CREEK

8385 IMPERIAL BENCH

8386 IMPERIAL BOWER

8387 IMPERIAL BRINK

8388 IMPERIAL CLIFF

8389 IMPERIAL FIELDS

8390 IMPERIAL HILLS

8391 IMPERIAL LEA

8892 IMPERIAL LOCH

8393 IMPERIAL MEADOWS

8394 IMPERIAL PEAK

8395 IMPERIAL RIDGE

8396 IMPERIAL ROAD

8397 IMPERIAL TERRAIN

8398 IMPERIAL TREES

8399 IMPERIAL VALE

8400 ALDER FALLS

8401 ASPEN FALLS

8402 BALSAM FALLS

8403 BEECH FALLS

8404 CATALPA FALLS

8405 FIR FALLS

8406 LARCH FALLS

8407 LINDEN FALLS

8408 PALM FALLS

8409 SASSAFRAS FALLS

8410 SUMAC FALLS

8411 COLONIAL CABINS

8412 COLONIAL CRAFTS

8413 COLONIAL FLAGS

8414 COLONIAL ARMS

8415 COLONIAL HOUSES

8416 COLONIAL DOORWAYS

8417 COLONIAL LANTERNS

8418 COLONIAL SCOUTS

8419 MOUNTAIN VIEW

8420 TOWER VIEW

8421 THOMAS ALEXANDER SCOTT

8422 GEORGE BROOK ROBERTS

8423 FRANK THOMSEN

8424 ALEXANDER JOHNSTON CASSATT

8425 JAMES McCREA

8426 SAMUEL REA

8427 WILLIAM WALLACE ATTERBURY

8428 HARBOR COVE

8429 HARBOR REST

8430 EAGLE BEAM

8431 EAGLE BLUFF

8432 EAGLE CHARM

8433 EAGLE CHIEF

8434 EAGLE COVE

8435 EAGLE EYE

8436 EAGLE GRAND

8437 EAGLE HEAD

8438 EAGLE OAK

8439 EAGLE PARK

8440 EAGLE PASS

8441 AMON G. CARTER

8442 BLUE RAPIDS

8443 BUFFALO RAPIDS

8444 ALLEGHENY RAPIDS

8445 MISSISSIPPI RAPIDS

8446 OHIO RAPIDS

8447 PENNS RAPIDS

8448 MAHONING RAPIDS

8449 SILVER RAPIDS

8451 SCIOTA RAPIDS

8452 STURGEON RAPIDS

The PRR prewar sleeper lounge observation 8113 SAMUEL VAUGHN MERRICK was repainted UP colors in April 1952 and assigned to one of the CITY OF LOS ANGELES train sets. It remained operating in this capacity until April 1955 when the UP received the new Dome Lounge Observations. At that time the 8113 SAMUEL VAUGHN MERRICK was repainted PRR Tuscan red and returned to the PRR.
Beginning in August 1955 the PRR began a renaming program for certain sleeping cars. The names selected were for businessmen and moguls of industry with certain of the names having regional overtones. In 1956 a number of sleeping cars renamed were assigned to the overnight all Pullman PITTSBURGHER, those cars will be identified as such. Other cars were repainted PRR Tuscan Red before renaming in the case of the former EAGLE prefix 10-6 sleeping cars that had operated as through cars in cooperation with the MP and T&P in the PENN TEXAS/TEXAS EAGLE. After the service ended the PRR assigned the cars to general service and did not seem anxious to repaint them at that time. Several of the cars after renaming received a second new name within a couple of months of the first renaming. Those cars renamed for assignment to the PITTSBURGHER are designated as such by the name being underlined.

AUGUST 1955

8416 NICHOLAS FIRESTONE originally 8416 COLONIAL DOORWAYS

APRIL 1956

8442 FAIRLESS HILLS originally 8442 BLUE RAPIDS

JULY 1956

8322 SAMUEL M. KIER originally 8322 SHENANGO RAPIDS

8365 HUGH HENRY BRECKENRIDGE originally 8365 CHATHAM CREEK

AUGUST 1956

8241 JACOB J. VANDERGRIFT originally 8241 ALLIANCE INN

8246 PETER SHOENBERGER originally 8246 BRADDOCK INN

8247 HENRY S. SPANG originally 8247 BUCYRUS INN

8252 WILLIAM THAW originally 8252 CHESTER INN

8287 JAMES HAY REED originally 8287 TYRONE INN

8323 JAMES O'HARA originally 8323 SHERMAN RAPIDS

8329 HENRY W. OLIVER originally 8329 TURTLE RAPIDS

8372 CHARLES LOCKHART originally 8372 CLIFF CREEK

8380 BENJAMIN BAKEWELL originally 8380 CONODOGUINET CREEK

8387 H.J. HEINZ originally 8387 IMPERIAL BRINK

8388 B.F.JONES originally 8388 IMPERIAL CLIFF

8407 HENRY PHIPPS originally 8407 LINDEN FALLS

SEPTEMBER 1956

8278 JEFFERY SCAIFE originally 8278 PIQUA INN

8287 B.F.JONES ex 8287 JAMES HAYE REED originally 8287 TYRONE INN

8319 ALEXANDER M. BYERS originally 8319 RARITAN RAPIDS

8328 JOHN PITCAIRN originally 8328 TOWANDA RAPIDS

8330 JAMES PARK originally 8330 TUSCARORA RAPIDS

8373 ALFRED HUNT originally 8373 CLOUD CREEK

8387 ANDREW W. MELLON ex 8387 H.J.HEINZ originally 8387 IMPERIAL BRINK

8388 RICHARD BEATTY MELLON ex 8388 B.F.JONES originally 8388 IMPERIAL CLIFF

8405 CHARLES MICHAEL SCHWAB ORIGINALLY 8405 FIR FALLS

OCTOBER 1956

8328 H.J.HEINZ ex 8328 JOHN PITCAIRN originally 8328 TOWANDA RAPIDS

8373 ALFRED E. HUNT ex 8373 ALFRED HUNT originally 8373 CLOUD CREEK

8381 JOSEPH HORNE originally 8381 COUNTRY CREEK

8384 HENRY CLAY FRICK originally 8384 CYPRESS CREEK

NOVEMBER 1956

8035 JAMES HAY REED originally 8035 MOOR BROOK

8259 E.T.WEIR originally 8259 GRAND RAPID INN

8268 JOHN PITCAIRN originally 8268 LIMA INN

8362 AUGUST A. BUSCH originally 8362 CEDAR CREEK

DECEMBER 1956

8330 JAMES PARK JR. ex 8330 JAMES PARK originally 8330 TUSCARORA RAPIDS

JUNE 1957

8076 GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE originally 8076 CASCADE CHASM

OCTOBER 1962

8431 LOYALHANNA RAPIDS originally EAGLE BLUFF


MARCH 1963

8437 DELAWARE RAPIDS originally 8437 EAGLE HEAD

JANUARY 1964

8430 LIGONIER RAPIDS originally 8430 EAGLE BEAM

8433 PARK RAPIDS originally 8433 EAGLE CHIEF

APRIL 1964

8434 LOYALSOCK RAPIDS originally 8434 EAGLE COVE

8438 BRANDYWINE RAPIDS originally 8438 EAGLE OAK

JUNE 1964

8435 DAYTON RAPIDS originally 8435 EAGLE EYE

JULY 1964

8440 LYCOMING RAPIDS originally 8440 EAGLE PASS

DECEMBER 1964

8436 WISSAHICKON RAPIDS originally 8436 EAGLE GRAND

FEBRUARY 1965

8432 PERKIOMEN RAPIDS originally 8432 EAGLE CHARM

JUNE 1965

8439 HUNTINGDON RAPIDS originally 8439 EAGLE PARK

Pullman in Buffalo rebuilt BROADWAY LIMITED car 8428 HARBOR COVE to a 5 Double Bedroom Buffet 20 Seat lounge Car in January 1956. One month later the same rebuilding took place to 8429 HARBOR COVE. The two cars returned to the BROADWAY LIMITED after rebuilding.
The Union Pacific's CITY OF DENVER was already having a tough time competing with the CB&Q DENVER ZEPHYR when that road announced all new DENVER ZEPHYRS for the fall of 1956. The information of most concern about the new DENVER ZEPHYRS for the Union Pacific was the announcement of the Slumbercoach to these new trains. Here was overnight private room sleeping with bathroom facilities available for coach charge plus a small room charge, no longer would it be necessary to upgrade to first class.
The same month the new DENVER ZEPHYRS entered service the UP leased two 21 Roomette sleeping cars from the PRR 8245 BEDFORD INN and 8253 COATESVILLE INN and repainted them UP colors for Slumbercoach service in the CITY OF DENVER. The UP sold the space in these cars at the same rate as the CB&Q Slumbercoaches. The UP passengers were getting a real bargain when compared to the CB&Q Slumbercoaches. Unfortunately the Slumbercoach carried forty passengers per trip and the 21 Roomette sleeping cars just over half that number. Finally in December 1956 the CB&Q added a second Slumbercoach to the DENVER ZEPHYRS and UP could see that the 21 Roomette cars were no competition. The two cars were returned to the PRR in April 1957 after repainting in PRR Tuscan Red, another noble experiment gone by the wayside.
In 1957 the PRR removed several sleeper Lounge Observations from Pullman lease and designated the cars parlor cars for service in Northeast corridor trains with no change in the interiors taking place. All cars were assigned a 7100 series number for Parlor car operation.

JANUARY 1957

7150 SKYLINE VIEW originally 8116 SKYLINE VIEW

7151 WASHINGTON VIEW originally 8117 WASHINGTON VIEW

APRIL 1957

7152 WILLIAM CHAMBERLIN PATTERSON originally 8111 WILLIAM CHAMBERLIN PATTERSON

7153 SAMUEL VAUGHN MERRICK originally 8113 SAMUEL VAUGHN MERRICK

NOVEMBER 1957

7154 ALEXANDER JOHNSTON CASSATT originally 8424 ALEXANDER JOHNSTON CASSATT

7155 WILLIAM WALLACE ATTERBURY originally 8427 WILLIAM WALLACE ATTERBURY

7156 FRANK THOMSON originally 8423 FRANK THOMSON

7157 JAMES McCREA originally 8425 JAMES McCREA

7158 GEORGE BROOKE ROBERTS originally 8422 GEORGE BROOKE ROBERTS

The 7150 - 7153 were retired and sold by January 1962 while the 7154-7158 reverted to their original 8400 series numbers and returned to Pullman lease in June 1958.
In February 1959 10 Roomette 6 Double Bedroom Sleeping car 8337 ELBERTON was extensively damaged by a fire that originated in the cars electrical cabinet. At least four of the cars Roomettes were extensively damaged in the fire that occurred while operating in the SILVER METEOR. The PRR made a decision to rebuild the car as an eleven double bedroom car and transfer it to every other day service in one of the BROADWAY LIMITED consists. The 8337 ELBERTON was rebuilt by PRR shops in June 1959 with Bedrooms supplied by Budd in a knocked down kit. It was hoped the original six bedrooms the car was built with could be reused and all that would be necessary would be cleaning. After removal the damage to the entire car exterior was realized and the ventilation system needed to be completely replaced as well. It is doubtful if the car would have been rebuilt if the extent of the damage had been known before rebuilding commenced.
The PRR was finding less and less assignments suitable for the all Roomette sleeping cars from before the war and after the war. The PRR was never one for purchasing many streamlined dormitory cars other than the twin unit dining cars that featured one half of the twin combinations as Crew Dormitory - Kitchen space. Many railroads were to designate sleeping cars of differing types as Crew Dormitory cars by simply changing the number of the car to one that denoted a non-revenue producing car. The following is a list of those 18 Roomette sleeping cars designated as crew dormitory cars.

December 1961

7996 originally PRR 8039 CITY OF AKRON

January 1962

7997 originally PRR 8050 CITY OF HARRISBURG

7998 originally PRR 8051 CITY OF JOHNSTOWN

February 1962

8059 originally PRR 8052 CITY OF PITTSBURGH

The two 21 Roomette sleeping cars assigned to Crew Dormitory duties were the two ISLAND series cars built to operate in ACL trains to Florida. After the all roomette sleepers were withdrawn the PRR assigned there two to the SOUTH WIND as Crew Dormitory cars and in winter months they operated in the FLORIDA SPECIAL pool of cars.

AUGUST 1964

7994 originally PRR 8298 GOVERNORS ISLAND

7995 originally PRR 8299 STATEN ISLAND

The PRR repainted six IMPERIAL series 4 Compartment 2 Drawing Room 4 Double Bedroom sleeping cars silver in October 1962 for assignment to that winters FLORIDA SPECIAL. Six IMPERIAL series cars meant that two of these deluxe accommodation sleeping cars were assigned to each of the three consists necessary for daily operation.

8011 IMPERIAL PARK

8012 IMPERIAL PASS

8014 IMPERIAL PLATEAU

8015 IMPERIAL POINT

8016 IMPERIAL RANGE

8017 IMPERIAL TERRACE

Many railroads in the early 1960's were finding passenger growth in Coaches but a steady decline in sleeping car space was taking place at the same time. Many streamlined sleeping cars were being retired and sold to the NdeM or in some cases scrapped. Other railroads chose to rebuild sleeping cars into coaches in order to accommodate the growth at less cost than buying new coaches. Few of these rebuilding occurred to prewar sleeping cars but significant numbers of postwar sleeping cars were rebuilt to coaches and other type cars. It was cheaper to rebuild good cars than scrap those cars for the little return on scrap metal in those days.
The PRR retired all fifty of the Budd built 21 Roomette INN series sleeping cars in August 1963 and sent them to Altoona for rebuilding. Forty-eight of the cars were rebuilt to 76 revenue seat coaches and two were rebuilt to 70 revenue seat coaches with a snack bar. They were then assigned 1500 series numbers 1500-1547 straight coaches and 1548, 1549 were the snack bar coaches. They were not rebuilt in any particular order and all were assigned to Corridor service trains.

September 1963

1500 originally PRR 8250 CARNEGIE INN

1501 originally PRR 8273 MASSILON INN

1502 originally PRR 8279 PRINCETON INN

1505 originally 8267 LEWISTOWN INN

October 1963

1503 ex PRR 8241 JACOB J. VANDERGRIFT originally PRR 8241 ALLIANCE INN

1504 originally PRR 8286 TIFFIN INN

1506 originally PRR 8263 JEANETTE INN

1507 originally PRR 8244 BEAVER FALLS INN

1508 originally PRR 8254 COLLINSVILLE INN

1509 ex PRR 8246 PETER SCHOENBERGER originally PRR 8246 BRADDOCK INN

1510 originally PRR 8281 SALEM INN

1511 originally PRR 8277 PETOSKEY INN

1512 ex PRR 8268 JOHN PITCAIRN originally PRR 8268 LIMA INN

1513 originally PRR 8275 NORRISTOWN INN

1514 originally PRR 8257 ELMIRA INN

1515 ex PRR 8278 JEFFERY SCAIFE originally PRR 8278 PIQUA INN

1517 originally PRR 8265 KOKOMO INN

1518 ex PRR 8259 E. T. WEIR originally PRR 8259 GRAND RAPIDS INN

1520 originally PRR 8290 VAN WERT INN

1521 originally PRR 8283 SHARON INN

1522 ex PRR 8264 CINCINNATI INN originally PRR 8264 KANE INN

1523 originally PRR 8245 BEDFORD INN

1524 ex PRR 8287 JAMES HAY REED ex PRR 8287 B. F. JONES originally PRR 8287 TYRONE INN

1525 originally PRR 8269 LOCK HAVEN INN

1526 originally PRR 8261 HAGERSTOWN INN

1527 originally PRR 8253 COATESVILLE INN

1528 originally PRR 8284 STEUBENVILLE INN

November 1963

1516 ex PRR 8247 HENRY S. SPANG originally PRR 8247 BUCYRUS INN

1519 originally PRR 8262 HAMILTON INN

1529 originally PRR 8266 LATROBE INN

1530 originally PRR 8272 MARIETTA INN

1531 originally PRR 8280 RAVENNA INN

1532 originally PRR 8276 OLEAN INN

1533 originally PRR 8255 COSHOCTON INN

1534 originally PRR 8256 CULVER INN

1535 originally PRR 8282 SEWICKLEY INN

1536 originally PRR 8243 ASHTABULA INN

1537 originally PRR 8258 FRANKLIN INN

1538 originally PRR 8270 LOGANSPORT INN

1539 originally PRR 8274 NEW CASTLE INN

1540 originally PRR 8260 GREENSBURG INN

1541 originally PRR 8242 ANDERSON INN

1542 originally PRR 8271 MANSFIELD INN

1543 originally PRR 8289 URBANA INN

1544 originally PRR 8251 CHAMBERSBURG INN

1545 originally PRR 8248 BUTLER INN

1546 ex PRR 8252 WILLIAM THAW originally PRR 8252 CHESTER INN

1547 originally PRR 8249 CAMBRIDGE INN

1548 originally PRR 8285 SUNBURY INN

1549 originally PRR 8288 UNIONTOWN INN

In 1964 the PRR was again in need of additional parlor car space and the simplest solution was to designate eight postwar COLONIAL series 3 Double Bedroom 1 Drawing Room Buffet 27 seat Lounge cars by simply assigning 7100 series numbers. It is believed the doors to the Bedrooms and Drawing Room were removed while the cars were in this service as follows.

May 1964

7148 originally PRR 8411 COLONIAL CABINS

7149 originally PRR 8412 COLONIAL CRAFTS

7150 originally PRR 8413 COLONIAL FLAGS

7151 originally PRR 8414 COLONIAL ARMS

7152 originally PRR 8415 COLONIAL HOUSES

7153 originally PRR 8416 NICHOLAS FIRESTONE originally PRR 8416 COLONIAL DOORWAYS

7154 originally PRR 8417 COLONIAL LANTERNS

June 1964

7155 originally PRR 8418 COLONIAL SCOUTS

At the same time as the COLONIAL series cars became designated Parlor cars in 1964 the PRR designated three prewar FALLS series 6 Double Bedroom Bar 20 seat Lounge cars to be Parlor Cars. These cars were assigned to the Northeast Corridor trains between New York and Washington.
One year later in May 1965 the PRR designated an additional four FALLS series 6 Double Bedroom Bar 20 seat Lounge Cars to be Parlor cars assigning 7100 series numbers.

MAY 1964

7156 originally PRR 8132 ELM FALLS

7157 originally PRR 8134 HICKORY FALLS

7158 originally PRR 8141 SYCAMORE FALLS

MAY 1965

7159 originally PRR 8129 BIRCH FALLS

7160 originally PRR 8138 BUTTERNUT FALLS

7161 originally PRR 8131 CYPRESS FALLS

7162 originally PRR 8136 LOCUST FALLS

TTFN Al

[siberianmo]

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE Day 2006!

G'day!

Here's another Pennsy Pix . . .

PRR Centipede #5283 (foto credit: unknown)


Later! [tup]


Tom[4:-)] [oX)]

[passengerfan]

PENNSYLVANIA
Streamlined Head End Cars
by Al

For the size or the PRR they owned surprisingly few lightweight streamlined head end cars. The PRR Altoona Shops modernized many heavyweight head end cars for service in the streamliners of the PRR but no actual streamlined head cars were ever built for the PRR’s most famous train the BROADWAY LIMITED. The PRR instead modernized heavyweights for the BROADWAY LIMITED and many other named trains.
The Altoona Shops of the PRR fully streamlined a number of heavyweight head end cars before and during WW II for their trains.
The first of the streamlined heavy-weight head end cars were a pair of Baggage Buffet 27 seat Lounge cars for the all coach TRAIL BLAZER between Chicago and New York overnight. The two cars 4931 and 4950 retained their original numbers after rebuilding to streamlined cars. The PRR Altoona Shops completed the work on the two cars in mid July 1939 in time for the trains July 28, 1939 inaugural.

BAGGAGE BUFFET 27 SEAT LOUNGE CARS Streamlined by PRR Shops July 1939 (Rebuilt and streamlined for TRAIL BLAZER)

4931, 4950

Three additional rebuilt streamlined heavyweight head end cars were delivered by Altoona Shops in July 1939 for the much delayed new JEFFERSONIAN a new all coach train between St. Louis and New York finally inaugurated April 27, 1941. These three cars were Baggage 16 Crew Dormitory Buffet 16 seat Lounge Cars 6701 – 6703. These three cars were assigned to the ADMIRAL until the new JEFFERSONIAN entered service. Postwar these three cars were assigned to the PENN TEXAS between New York and St. Louis.

BAGGAGE 16 CREW DORMITORY BUFFET 16 SEAT LOUNGE CARS Streamlined by PRR Shops July 1939 (Rebuilt and streamlined for JEFFERSONIAN)

6701 – 6703

The PRR inaugurated an all-new Budd built seven car Coach streamlined between Chicago and Miami on an every third day schedule on December 19, 1940. The new train named the SOUTH WIND operated over PRR rails between Chicago and Louisville and was forwarded on to Miami by other roads the NC&STL. L&N, ACL, and FEC. The new Budd built streamliner was hardly recognizable as a Budd built product as it was delivered with a coat of PRR Tuscan red covering the gleaming stainless steel finish. The first car in the new train was a Baggage 16 Crew Dormitory 18 revenue seat Coach Combination numbered 6700. The cars for the new train were all delivered by Budd in late November 1940.

BAGGAGE 16 CREW DORMITORY 18 REVENUE SEAT COACH COMBINATION Budd Company November 1940 (Built for and assigned to SOUTH WIND)

6700

In March 1942 the PRR Altoona Shops turned out three Baggage 16 Crew Dormitory Buffet 16 seat Lounge cars numbered 6704 – 6706 identical to the earlier three for the JEFFERSONIAN. These three were assigned to the St. Louis – New York all Pullman SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS.
That same month the Altoona shops released seven-streamlined Baggage 36 revenue seat Coach Combinations 5100 – 5106 rebuilt from heavyweights. The cars were assigned to General Service but were most often found in trains operating in the New York – Washington corridor.

BAGGAGE 16 CREW DORMITORY BUFFET 16 SEAT LOUNGE CARS Rebuilt and streamlined by Altoona Shops March 1942 (Rebuilt and streamlined for SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS)

6704 – 6706

BAGGAGE 36 REVENUE SEAT COACH COMBINATIONS Rebuilt and streamlined by Altoona Shops March 1942 (Rebuilt and streamlined for General Service)

5100 – 5106

In 1943 the PRR Altoona Shops streamlined eight additional head end cars. Six of these cars were Baggage 36 revenue seat Coach Combinations 5107 – 5112 out shopped between January and April, 1943 and assigned to General Service mostly in trains operating in the New York – Washington corridor.
The other two head end cars out shopped by Altoona in June 1943 were a pair of Baggage 22 Crew Dormitory cars 6707, 6708 for assignment to the New York Chicago GENERAL.

BAGGAGE 36 REVENUE SEAT COACH COMBINATIONS Rebuilt and streamlined by Altoona Shops January – April 1943 (Rebuilt for and assigned to General Service)

5107 – 5112

BAGGAGE 22 CREW DORMITORY CARS Rebuilt and streamlined by Altoona Shops June 1943 (Rebuilt for and assigned to GENERAL)

6707, 6708

Following WW II the PRR not only placed large orders for new postwar cars from Budd, Pullman Standard and American Car & Foundry but from there own Altoona Shops they ordered their first new cars that were not rebuilds from heavyweights. In September – October 1947 the Altoona Shops delivered five new-streamlined Baggage Buffet 27 seat Lounge cars 6695 - 6699 for assignment to the TRAIL BLAZER and JEFFERSONIAN.

BAGGAGE BUFFET 27 SEAT LOUNGE CARS PRR Altoona Shops September – October 1947 (Built for and assigned to TRAIL BLAZER – JEFFERSONIAN)

6695 – 6699

American Car & Foundry delivered four Baggage 22 Crew Dormitory cars in April 1948 numbered 6691 – 6694. These four cars were assigned two each to consists of the ADMIRAL and two each to consists of the LIBERTY LIMITED. These were the last new head end cars ever built for the PRR.

BAGGAGE 22 CREW DORMITORY CARS American Car & Foundry April 1948 (Built for and assigned to ADMIRAL and LIBERTY LIMITED)

6691 – 6694

In 1964-1965 the PRR Altoona shops remodeled five of these postwar streamlined head end cars into Baggage 60’ Railway Post Office cars for assignment to the Northeast Corridor. All cars were assigned new 6500 series numbers after rebuilding to Baggage 60’ Railway Post Office Cars as follows:

JUNE 1964

6595 originally PRR 6692

SEPTEMBER 1964

6596 originally PRR 6691

OCTOBER 1964

6597 originally PRR 6693

DECEMBER 1964

6598 originally PRR 6694

FEBRUARY 1964

6599 originally PRR 6696

TTFN Al

[siberianmo]

G'day!

Pennsy Day on the 4th of July! . . .


PRR E2B (courtesy: www.trainweb.org)


Later! [tup]

Tom[4:-)] [oX)]

[siberianmo]

ENCORE! ENCORE! ENCORE! ENCORE!

PASSENGER TRAIN NOSTALGIA #11

Here’s something to enjoy regarding the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) from an advertisement in Classic American Trains



NOW . . . A Complete RECREATION CAR

Especially Designed for Your Pleasure

In daily service on The Jeffersonian, popular all-coach streamliner between New York and St. Louis!
A dramatic highlight in Pennsylvania railroad’s new equipment program, this colorful new recreation car provides amusement and entertainment for all ages. A luxurious game and reading lounge . . . a children’s playroom . . . a sunken buffet lounge . . . miniature movie theatre – pleasure with variety. Be among the first to enjoy it! Reserve a seat on The Jeffersonian on your next trip!

SO ROOMY AND RESTFUL – the new overnight coaches on The Jeffersonian. Only 44 seats to the car – and all reclining! You’ll like the new lighting too – fluorescent, 4 times brighter but easy on the eyes. New-type air-conditioning adds still more comfort.

EXTRA LARGE MODERN WASHROOMS, one for women, one for men at the end of each coach – handsomely decorated – with 3 glistening washstands and 2 toilet annexes.

Enjoy these New Features at Low Coach Fares!

THE JEFFERSONIAN
. . . . . . . . . . Westbound . . . . . . . . . .
Lv. New York . . . . . 6:15 P.M.
Lv. Philadelphia . . . 7:43 P.M.
Lv. Washington . . . 6:20 P.M.
Lv. Baltimore . . . . . 7:05 P.M.
Lv. Harrisburg . . . . .9:42 P.M.
Ar. Columbus . . . . . 6:46 A.M.
Ar. Dayton . . . . . . ..8:21 A.M.
Ar. Indianapolis . . . .9:27 A.M.
Ar. St. Louis . . . . . .1:50 P.M.
. . . . . . . . . . Eastbound . . . . . . . . . .
Lv. St. Louis . . . . . . 1:00 P.M.
Lv. Indianapolis . . . . 5:07 P.M.
Lv. Dayton . . . . . . . .8:13 P.M.
Lv. Columbus . . . . . .9:35 P.M.
Ar. Harrisburg . . . . . 6:51 A.M.
Ar. Baltimore . . . . . . 9:23 A.M.
Ar. Washington . . . .10:10 A.M.
Ar. Philadelphia . . . . .8:52 A.M.
Ar. New York . . . . . .10:25 A.M

Recreation car facilities available to Baltimore and Washington passengers between Harrisburg and St. Louis.

PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
Serving the Nation


Enjoy! [tup]

Tom[4:-)][oX)]


ENCORE! ENCORE! ENCORE! ENCORE!

[siberianmo]

G'day!

My finale for this day . . .


UP Turbo #80 (courtesy: donsdepot.donrossgroup.net)


Later! [tup]

Tom[4:-)] [oX)]

[siberianmo]

G'day!

[#welcome] aboard Mark! Really an interesting Post and something that most probably would be better suited for "Our" Place - the adult cyber bar 'n grill on this Forum - where the conversation is amongst adults discussing Classic Trains - while having a bit of fun doing so! [tup] There are more than a few guys who would appreciate reading your Post - why not give it a "rerun" over there on Wednesday [?]

Of course it is an INTERACTIVE site - not like this one where people sort of "hit 'n run" . . . Just check out the way things are done and you'll have no problems . . . .

Thanx for the input and hope to see ya again! [tup]

Tom[4:-)] [oX)]

[Anonymous]

It was in the Winter of either 1942 or 1943 and my Uncle drove my Aunt and I the 30 odd miles from Bradenton, Fla. to the Union Station in Tampa. I was 10 or maybe 11 years old and very excited because this was to be my first ever trip on a long distance train and in a Pullman sleeper no less! As I recall the Tampa section of the Southland consisted of four Pullmans and four or five coaches plus a number of head end cars. All were heavy weights.

Our porter took our luggage on board and showed my Aunt and I to our open section seats. I can't remember exactly but think our car had 12 sections with one compartment and possible two bedrooms. We pulled out of Tampa at dusk behind an Atlantic Coast Line 4-8-2 which was one of several the ACL had purchased from the Lackawanna expressly for service on the Southland. Our first stop was at Trilby and I accompanied out porter to one of the car's vestibules where he opened the top half of the door and invited me to look out with him to watch the coaches and Pullmans from the St. Petersburg section being added to our train.

Not long after leaving Trilby our porter made up our berths and my Aunt took the lower while I climbed the ladder and bedded down in the upper. I was a little disappointed that my Aunt had the window while I had to be content with listening to the clickety clack of the rail joints and the occasional deep chime whistle of that big mountain engine as she rolled through the sparsely populated (at that time) upper Gulf coast.

The Southland ran over the ACL's Perry cutoff which by passed Jacksonville and ran through such metropolises as Gulf Hammock, Shamrock, Chiefland, and Perry (it's namesake). For years I was of the belief that the Southland was limited to 30 mph over this route because of its big engine and the lightly built roadbed. The Perry cutoff was laid with 90 lb. rail much of which was only cinder ballasted. Needless to say it was "dark" territory with timetable and train order operations. Recently Russell Tedder informed me that the ACL's Employee Timetables showed a 59 mph speed limit over the "Cutoff". I'll bow to Russell's superior knowledge since he grew up around Perry and as young man was the Live Oak, Perry & Gulf's agent/operator at Perry. In any event I was so excited that I lay in my gently swaying upper berth for hours listening to the muted train sounds before finally falling asleep.

Sometime around sunup The ACL handed us off to the Central of Georgia and when I awoke, got dressed quickly and headed for breakfast with my Aunt we were really highballing compared to our more leisurely pace over the ACL. Breakfast in that CoG diner which had been added to our train as we sped up the main to Atlanta at breakneck speed behind a CofG 4-8-2 was truly memorable. It was both the first time I had ever eaten in a dining car and also the fastest I had ever travelled! I learned we had been 20 minutes late leaving Thomasville, GA. but the CofG made it up and put us into Atlanta on the dot.

At Atlanta we dropped off at least the Tampa-Atlanta sleeper and maybe a St. Pete-Atlanta Pullman as well. I believe (but am not sure) we picked up a sleeper from the CoG's overnight train from Savannah. The CofG diner was dropped and a Louisville & Nashville diner added; undoubtedly there was some shuffling of head end cars and coaches as well.

We left Atlanta on the L&N late in the morning for the day time run through the mountains of north Georgia, eastern Tennessee and Kentucky. This line was single tracked but semaphore block signalled all the way to Cincinnatti. This was truly "curve city" all the way around the mountains and through the valleys. While we were double headed by a pair of L&N 4-6-2's I doubt if we ever hit 60 mph
due to the length of the Southland combined with those mountain grades and the speed restrictions on the curves. Not too long after lunch in the diner we were in Tennessee and as we went around the curves I was watching that double header and the semaphores dropping as we passed them until I dozed off ocassionally.

I'd wake up from my slumbers as the train slowed for a staion stop and I remember three things quite distinctly about that afternoon. First, at some small town in the mountains where a branch of the Southern Railway interchanged with the L&N I saw a SR compound articulated 2-8-8-2. This was my first ever sight of such an engine!
Second, I remember stopping at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and the surprising number of passengers who got off there, undobtedly employees of the atomic plant which could be seen across the valley from the L&N's station. Third, and again at another small mountain town where the Kentucky & Tennessee terminated and had an engine house right alongside the L&N main with several K&T 2-8-0's and 2-8-2' s on their service tracks in plain view.

At Corbin, Kentucky we changed engines and after a sumptuous meal in the diner (my Aunt who was paying the bill indulged my every wish) we soon retired for the night. I slept like a log and never even opened my eyes at our Cincinnatti Union Station stop where the L&N handed us off to the Pennsylvania RR. The next morning I barely woke in time to get dressed and get off the train at Gary, Indiana where my Dad was waiting to pick us up on the snowy wind blown station platfrom. Oh yes, the Pennsy had run the train with a pair of K-4 Pacifics on the overnight dash from
Cincinnatti to Chicago.

Mark

[siberianmo]

G'day!

Here's another . . .

UP GE Turbo #60 (courtesy:donsdepot.donrossgroup.net)



Later! [tup]

Tom[4:-)][oX)]

[BudKarr]

Good Day Captain Tom

Something of relevance to the subject UP turbines:

QUOTE: Gas Turbine Locomotives



A New Era

Union Pacific was the only railroad in the United States to own and operate gas turbine locomotives. The turbine, rather than an internal combustion diesel engine, drove an alternator/generator to supply electricity to electric motors mounted on the axles. Union Pacific's gas turbine fleet totalled 55 locomotives.

The first turbine, No. 50, was built by Alco-GE in 1948 and was tested extensively on UP in 1949. Although it was painted in Union Pacific colors, the railroad never owned No. 50, but it paved the way for the GE turbine fleet which followed. The first ten UP turbines, Nos. 51-60, packing 4,500 horsepower each, were delivered to UP by General Electric in 1952. Fifteen more of these units were ordered in 1954 and numbered 61-75. Thirty units of a larger model, numbered 1-30, were delivered between 1958 and 1961. With a hefty 8,500 horsepower apiece, the last 30 units were the largest locomotives ever built.

The turbine fleet pulled freight trains between Council Bluffs, IA and Ogden, UT. Although tested on the Salt Lake City to Los Angeles run, their tremendous noise quickly made them unpopular in California. The locomotives were nicknamed "Big Blows" for their deafening jet engine exhaust noise. The huge locomotives, with their big appetite for fuel oil, eventually fell victim to the more efficient diesels, and in 1970 the turbines ran their last miles.

Union Pacific also experimented with a steam turbine in 1939 and a coal-fired turbine in 1962. Neither locomotive, however, was successful.

Locomotives on Display

Although Union Pacific never donated any turbines directly to museums, two of the locomotives did survive and are now on public display. No. 18 is at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, IL and No. 26 and 26B are displayed at Ogden Union Station in Ogden, UT.

from: www.uprr.com

BK in beautiful Alberta, Canada’s high mountain country!

[siberianmo]

G'day!

Something different . . .

UP GE Turbo #71 (courtesy: donsdepot.donrossgroup.net)


Later! [tup]

Tom[4:-)] [oX)]

[passengerfan]

UNION
PACIFIC
(UP)Streamlined Dining & Lounge Cars
by Al

On February 12, 1934 The Union Pacific received the first truly successful streamlined train in the world. This three car articulated streamliner included Power Unit with turret cab above a large rounded grill an engine room housing the 600 hp distillate engine and electrical generator. In the same unit was a 20’ Railway Post Office Compartment and 15’baggage room. This power – RPO – Baggage unit was numbered M-10000. The second car in the articulated consist was a 56-revenue seat coach numbered 10400. The third car was a 56-revenue seat coach with a buffet-kitchen located in the Blind end bullet shaped observation end. This car was numbered 10401. The buffet-kitchen provided no seating as waiters took the passengers orders to their seats. This was the only food service provided in the three car articulated streamliner.
After a lengthy display at the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago the train traveled the country on exhibition and entered scheduled service January 31, 1935. Initially the train operated a daily round trip between Salina, Kansas and Kansas City. Within a few months the train began operating the following daily schedule: Salina – Kansas City – Topeka – Kansas City – Salina. While in this service the train was named the CITY OF SALINA and beginning December 16, 1941, the train was replaced by a steam-powered train with heavyweight cars a victim of its own success. The CITY OF SALINA was sent to Omaha where it remained until scrapped for its aluminum content in 1942.

M-10000 ARTICULATED CAB UNIT 600 HP POWER UNIT 30’ RAILWAY POST OFFICE BAGGAGE CAR
10400 ARTICULATED 56-REVENUE SEAT COACH
10401 ARTICULATED 56-REVENUE SEAT COACH BUFFET-KITCHEN BLIND END OBSERVATION Pullman Standard / EMC January-February 1934 (3-unit articulated streamliner became the CITY OF SALINA)

The second streamlined train to enter service on the Union Pacific was the CITY OF PORTLAND. This train when it entered service June 6, 1935 was a seven car articulated streamliner. But before it entered service it traveled around the country as a six car articulated streamliner after its delivery October 2, 1934. As originally built the six car train lacked a Dining-lounge car, only the 54-revenue seat coach buffet-kitchen blind end observation 10402 was part of the original as built consist. This would be rectified before the train entered service in June 1935. Articulated car E.H. HARRIMAN was built originally as a 10 section 1 compartment 1 double bedroom sleeping car that was trainlined third in the original consist. As the train entered scheduled service the former E.H. HARRIMAN was rebuilt to a 30-seat dining 10-seat lounge car and numbered 10300. It still was trainlined third articulated car in consist. The 10300 provided food and beverage service to the first class passengers of the CITY OF PORTLAND and the 10402 provided coach passengers with food and beverage service. The following consist is of the CITY OF PORTLAND as it entered scheduled service.

M-10001 Articulated Turret Cab 1,200 hp Power Unit.
12200 Articulated Baggage 12-Crew Dormitory Car
10300 Articulated 30-Seat Dining 10-Seat Lounge Car
OVERLAND TRAIL articulated 8-Section 1-Compartment 1-Double Bedroom Sleeping Car
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Articulated 10-Section 1-Compartment 1-Double Bedroom Sleeping Car
OREGON TRAIL articulated 8-Section 1-Compartment 1-Double Bedroom Sleeping Car
10402 Articulated 54-Revenue Seat Buffet-Kitchen Blind End Observation

Like the CITY OF SALINA this CITY OF PORTLAND train was retired and scrapped at Omaha in April 1941.
In 1936 two new nine-car articulated streamlined consists entered service. One thing that immediately set these two train sets apart and that was for the first time the power units were not articulated to the rest of the consists. These were designated the third and fourth trains.
The third train entered scheduled service May 15, 1936 as the CITY OF LOS ANGELES. The new CITY OF LOS ANGELES featured two power units a Cab unit with a 1,200 hp diesel and a booster unit with a 900 hp diesel. These were numbered M-10002A and M-10002B. The three cars in the consist we are concerned with in this book are 12760 a baggage –12-crew dormitory – Kitchen car, 10301 a 32-seat dining expandable at meal times to 40 seats and a 17-seat lounge expandable during non meal hours to 25-seats. The third car we are concerned with in this CITY OF LOS ANGELES train was the 10404 a 38-revenue seat coach buffet kitchen blind end observation. All cars were articulated in the nine car consist. The three cars we are concerned with were train lined second, third and ninth in the CITY OF LOS ANGELES.
Car 12201, Car 12760 and 10404 were retired and scrapped in March 1943.

12201 ARTICULATED BAGGAGE 12-CREW DORMITORY KITCHEN CAR
12760 ARTICULATED 32-SEAT DINING 8-SEAT CARD SECTION 17-SEAT LOUNGE CARS

10404 38-SEAT COACH BUFFET-KITCHEN BLIND END OBSERVATION

The fourth train a new CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO inaugurated June 14, 1936 was identical to the new CITY OF LOS ANGELES except for the power units. The first power unit M-10004A featured a 1,200 hp diesel and the booster unit M-10004B featured a 1,200 hp diesel. The second articulated car was a baggage 12-crew dormitory Kitchen car 12202; the dining lounge car 10302 was identical to the 10301. The third car was the articulated 10406 another blind end observation with 38-coach seats and a buffet –kitchen. The fourth train was extensively rebuilt after being removed from -month rebuilding the train emerged as a 10-car articulated train set with a single car and with two power units. The power units M-10004A and M-10004B were renumbered LA-4A and LA-4B. The former blind end observation kitchen –buffet car 10406 was completely rebuilt to a 40-seat coach and was shifted to become the first articulated car in the consist with the new number LA-403.The third articulated car was the LA-603 now a 32-seat Coffee Shop Kitchen car rebuilt from the Baggage – 12 crew dormitory Kitchen car 12761. The fourth articulated car was LA-604 a 60-seat dining room car rebuilt from the former 10302. The last car in this train was an articulated Buffet 38-seat lounge square ended observation numbered and named LA-902 COPPER KING originally built as auxiliary power 30’RPO Baggage car 12202 the first articulated car in the original fourth train consist. The fourth train was not retired until 1948 and was finally scrapped in 1950. Original cars as built listed first followed by dining and lounge cars as rebuilt.

12203 ARTICULATED BAGGAGE 12-CREW DORMITORY KITCHEN CAR
12761 ARTICULTED 32-SEAT DINING 8-SEAT CARD SECTION 17-SEAT LOUNGE CAR

10406 ARTICULATED 38 REVENUE SEAT COACH BUFFET –KITCHEN BLIND END OBSERVATION

LA-603 ARTICULATED 32-SEAT COFFEE SHOP – KITCHEN CAR
LA-604 ARTICULATED 60-SEAT DINING ROOM CAR

LA-902 COPPER KING ARTICULATED BUFFET 38-SEAT LOUNGE OBSERVATION

The next two trains the fifth and sixth built for the Union Pacific were the CITY OF DENVER consists delivered in June 1936. These trains were each ten cars and were the first streamliners that no more than two cars were articulated pairs. As delivered each consist had four single cars and three articulated pairs. The cars we are concerned with here are the third, sixth and tenth in each consist The third car in each consist was the Baggage “Frontier Shack” Buffet 24-seat Tavern Lounge car, the sixth car in each consist a 24-seat dining 12 seat cocktail lounge car. The third car was part of an articulated pair and was the final car in each consist, these were 5-Double Bedroom 1 compartment 22-Seat Lounge Observations. All numbered cars in the two CITY OF DENVER consists were assigned new CD prefix numbers in June 1937. The fifth train dining and lounge cars are listed first followed by the sixth trains showing the original numbers and the CD numbers in parenthesis.

11701 (CD-70) BAGGAGE “FRONTIER SHACK” BUFFET 24-SEAT TAVERN LOUNGE CAR

10303 (CD-60) 24-SEAT DINING 12-SEAT COCKTAIL LOUNGE CAR

OGALLALA ARTICULATED 5-DOUBLE BEDROOM 1-COMPARTMENT 22-SEAT LOUNGE OBSERVATION

11703 (CD-71) BAGGAGE “FRONTIER SHACK” BUFFET 24-SEAT TAVERN LOUNGE CAR

10304 (CD-61) 24-SEAT DINING 12-SEAT COCKTAIL LOUNGE CAR

COLORES ARTICULATED 5-DOUBLE BEDROOM 1-COMPARTMENT 22-SEAT LOUNGE OBSERVATION

The CD-61 dining –lounge car was rebuilt to a 40-seat dining car in December 1942. In February 1943 CD-60 underwent the same conversion work.
The CD-70 was rebuilt in December 1944 to a 12-Crew Dormitory Buffet 24-seat “Frontier Shack” Tavern lounge car, one month later in January 1945 the same work was completed to CD-71. While the CITY OF DENVER streamlined cars were rebuilt heavyweight cars substituting.
The Union Pacific received five articulated Twin-unit dining cars from Pullman Standard in November 1937 carrying the same number on both cars 5100 - 5104. They rode on four-wheel trucks at their outer ends and a six-wheel truck was under the articulation. The one car contained Crew Dormitory space for 20 and the Kitchen. The other half of the Twin Unit dining cars was a 68-seat dining room car. The five twin-unit dining sets were assigned to the LOS ANGELES CHALLENGER pool of cars.
Following WW-II the 5100 – 5104 were assigned to the CITY streamliners when daily service began in 1947. All but 5102 were assigned to the four consists of the first daily CITY OF LOS ANGELES streamliners and the 5102 was assigned to one of the CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO daily train sets. As new equipment arrived for the postwar streamliners the five twin – unit dining cars were assigned to other UP trains such as the LOS ANGELES LIMITED, IDAHOAN and other secondary trains during peak travel times when a single unit dining car was unable to handle the crowds. All five of these twin unit sets were assigned to the revived CHALLENGER in 1954 after the dining room units seating was reduced to 52.
In March – April 1956 the twin-units were assigned separate numbers as follows:

5100 Dormitory Kitchen ex 5100
5101 Dining Room ex 5100

5102 Dormitory Kitchen ex 5101
5103 Dining Room ex 5101

5104 Dormitory Kitchen ex 5102
5105 Dining Room ex 5102

5106 Dormitory Kitchen ex 5103
5107 Dining Room ex 5103

5108 Dormitory Kitchen ex 5104
5109 Dining Room ex 5104

ARTICULATED TWIN-UNIT 20-CREW DORMITORY KITCHEN 68-SEAT DINING ROOM CARS Pullman Standard November 1937 (Built for and assigned to LOS ANGELES CHALLENGER pool)

5100 – 5104

The next train to enter service on the UP was the seventh train a new CITY OF LOS ANGELES. This train was made up of four single cars and 10 articulated cars for a fourteen car consist. The cars of concern to us in this book are the articulated pair train lined fourth and fifth the single car following the articulated pair and the last car in the fourteen car consist. This new train was delivered to the UP in December 1937 and entered service on the eighteenth of that month. The articulated pair consisted of a 32-seat coffee shop kitchen car LA-601 BILTMORE articulated to a 72-seat dining room car LA-602 AMBASSADOR.
The next car in consist was the 9-crew dormitory ¼ round bar 35-seat Club car LA-701 “THE LITTLE NUGGET” decorated in a gay nineties theme.
The final car in consist was the LA-901 SUN VALLEY a buffet 38-seat Lounge Observation nurses quarters and barber shop. All CITY OF LOS ANGELES cars lasted until the late 1950s before meeting the scrapper. In the case of LA-701 “THE LITTLE NUGGET” it still is preserved today in a railroad museum in southern California.

ARTICULATED 32-SEAT COFFEE SHOP KITCHEN CAR Pullman Standard December 1937 (Built for and assigned to seventh train CITY OF LOS ANGELES)

LA-601 BILTMORE

ARTICULATED 72-SEAT DINING ROOM CAR Pullman Standard December 1937 (Built for and assigned to seventh train CITY OF LOS ANGELES)

LA-602 AMBASSADOR

9-CREW DORMITORY BUFFET 35-SEAT CLUB LOUNGE CAR Pullman Standard December 1937 (Built for and assigned to seventh train CITY OF LOS ANGELES)

LA-701 “THE LITTLE NUGGET”

NURSES ROOM BARBER SHOP BUFFET 38-SEAT LOUNGE OBSERVATION CAR Pullman Standard December 1937 (Built for and assigned to seventh train CITY OF LOS ANGELES)

LA-901 SUN VALLEY

At nearly the same time the eighth train was delivered a new CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO consist that entered service January 2, 1938. This train was also a fourteen car consist with six single cars and eight articulated cars in pairs.
The third and fourth articulated cars were 32-seat coffee shop car with kitchen SF-601 PRESIDIO articulated to a 72-seat dining room car SF-602 MISSION DOLORES. The next single car SF-701 EMBARCADERO featured 9-crew dormitory ¼ round bar and 35-seat lounge.
The final car in consist was SF-901 NOB HILL with nurses quarters barbershop buffet 38-seat lounge observation. Only the SF-901 NOB HILL had a long career on the UP the other three CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO feature cars were destroyed by an act of sabotage near Harney Nevada August 12, 1939.

ARTICULATED 32-SEAT COFFEE SHOP KITCHEN CAR Pullman Standard December 1937 (Built for and assigned to eighth train CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO)

SF-601 PRESIDIO

ARTICULATED 72-SEAT DINING ROOM CAR Pullman Standard December 1937 (Built for and assigned to eighth train CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO)

SF-602 MISSION DOLORES

9-CREW DORMITORY BUFFET 35-SEAT CLUB LOUNGE CAR Pullman Standard December 1937 (Built for and assigned to eighth train CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO)

SF-701 EMBARCADERO

NURSES ROOM BARBER SHOP BUFFET 38-SEAT LOUNGE OBSERVATION Pullman Standard December 1937 (Built for and assigned to eighth train CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO)

SF-901 NOB HILL

In June and July 1941 the UP received a large number of cars to partially reequip the seventh train and replace the wreck damaged cars of the eighth train. At the same time there were enough of these new cars to equip a new ninth train CITY OF LOS ANGELES and new tenth train CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO. As a result of these changes the following CITY OF LS ANGELES cars were reassigned to the CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO and they exchanged their LA prefix numbers and named for SF prefix names as follows:

ARTICULATED 32-SEAT COFFEE SHOP KITCHEN CAR

SF-605 PRESIDIO originally LA-601 BILTMORE

ARTICULATED 72-SEAT DINING CAR SEATING reduced to 68

SF-606 MISSION DOLORES originally LA-601 AMBASSADOR

Two new non-articulated cars were built for the revised seventh train; they were LA-611 MISSION INN a 24-seat Café 29-seat Lounge car, and 56-seat Dining car LA-701 BILTMORE. Both cars were constructed and delivered in June 1941 by Pullman Standard to the Union Pacific. At the same time a mostly new ninth train CITY OF LOS ANGELES was constructed to enter service. The new Café Lounge car for this train was LA-612 HACIENDA and the 56-seat dining car was LA-607 BILTMORE. Next to the dining car was a new Barbershop nurses room buffet 30-seat club lounge car LA-703 “HOLLYWOOD”. The last car in the ninth train was a 4-Double Bedroom Buffet 32-seat lounge observation BALDY MOUNTAIN.

24-SEAT CAFÉ 28-SEAT LOUNGE CARS Pullman Standard June 1941 (Built for revised seventh and new ninth CITY OF LOS ANGELES trains)

LA-611 MISSION INN

LA-612 HACIENDA

56-SEAT DINING CARS Pullman Standard June 1941 (Built for revised seventh and new ninth CITY OF LOS ANGELES trains)

LA-607 BILTMORE

LA-608 AMBASSADOR

BARBER SHOP NURSES QUARTERS BUFFET 30-SEAT CLUB LOUNGE CAR Pullman Standard June 1941 (Built for and assigned to ninth train CITY OF LOS ANGELES)

LA-703 HOLLYWOOD

4-DOUBLE BEDROOM BUFFET 32-SEAT LOUNGE OBSERVATION Pullman Standard July 1941 Plan: 4096A Lot: 6636 (Built for and assigned to ninth train CITY OF LOS ANGELES)

BALDY MOUNTAIN

At the same time a revised eighth train and a mostly new tenth train entered service as CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO train sets.
A new articulated 32-seat Coffee shop Kitchen car and 64-seat dining car were built for the new tenth train SF-609 FORT MASON and SF-610 ST. FRANCIS WOODS. The revised eighth train used the former CITY OF LOS ANGELES seventh train cars renamed for CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO service as previously mentioned.
The revised eighth train received a new 9-crew-dormitory buffet 35-seat club lounge car SF-702 EMBARCADERO and the new tenth train received a new Barbershop Nurses quarters Buffet 30-seat Club Lounge car SF-704 MARINA. The new tenth train received a new 4-Double Bedroom Buffet 32-seat lounge observation RUSSIAN HILL.

ARTICULATED 32-SEAT COFFEE SHOP KITCHEN CAR June 1941 (Built for and assigned to tenth train CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO)

SF-609 FORT MASON

ARTICULATED 64-SEAT DINING ROOM CAR Pullman Standard June, 1941 (Built for and assigned to tenth train CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO)

SF-610 ST. FRANCIS WOODS

9-CREW DORMITORY BUFFET 35-SEAT CLUB LOUNGE CAR Pullman Standard June 1941 (Built for and assigned to revised eighth train CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO)

SF-702 EMBARCADERO

BARBER SHOP NURSES QUARTERS BUFFET 30-SEAT LOUNGE CAR Pullman Standard June 1941 (Built for and assigned to tenth train CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO)

SF-704 MARINA

4-DOUBLE BEDROOM BUFFET 32-SEAT LOUNGE OBSERVATION Pullman Standard July 1941 Plan: 4096A Lot: 6636 (Built for and assigned to tenth train CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO)

RUSSIAN HILL

Many of the above lounge cars were stored for the duration of WW-II from 1942 until 1946 by order of the Office of Defense transportation.

LA-703 HOLLYWOOD stored in Chicago

LA-901 SUN VALLEY was stored in Los Angeles

SF-704 MARINA was stored in Chicago

SF-901 NOB HILL was stored in Oakland

In August 1942 Omaha shops remodeled 56-seat coach with nurses room 5203 into a 24-seat coach and 22-seat lounge car. The former nurses quarters of this coach was converted into a bar. The car was added to the ninth train CITY OF LOS ANGELES trainlined between LA-405 PASADENA and LA-406 BOULDER CITY that trains two 48-seat coaches. The 5203 car was originally built for the CHALLENGER in 1937. The 5203 was again remodeled in 1947 to a Barber Shop Bar 32-seat Lounge car and this time renumbered 1521 for daily CITY train service. In addition seven additional former CHALLENGER 56-seat coaches with nurses quarters were rebuilt to barber shop bar 32-seat Lounge cars for daily CITY service as follows in 1947. Two of the cars 1522 and 1523 were equipped for end of train service with a finished flat type end with a small round porthole centered complete with window wiper and assigned to two of the CITY OF LOS ANGELES consists when that train became daily.

1516 originally 5205

1517 originally 5206

1518 originally 5207

1519 originally 5210

1520 originally 5211

1521 originally 5203

1522 originally 5204

1523 originally 5208

The CITY OF PORTLAND was the first UP CITY streamliner to become a daily train in 1947. Café Lounge cars LA-611 MISSION INN and LA-612 HACIENDA were shopped and rebuilt to 56-seat dining cars only the prefix in their numbers changed from LA to CP. 56-seat Dining cars LA-607 BILTMORE and LA-608 AMBASSADOR also had their prefix changed from LA to CP for the 1947 summer daily CITY OF PORTLAND trains.
The Union Pacific – Chicago & North Western – Southern Pacific placed large orders for postwar cars to equip the CITY streamliners but deliveries would not begin until 1949. The SP remained loyal to Pullman Standard while the UP and C&NW turned to American Car & Foundry for their postwar CITY fleet. The UP ordered fifty 10-6 sleeping cars from Budd that became the backbone of the postwar CITY fleet.
Between January and April 1949 American Car & Foundry delivered twenty-one 48-seat dining cars for streamliner service, four of these cars were C&NW owned 6956-6959 and the other seventeen were UP 4800-4816. These cars were assigned to the CITY OF PORTLAND, CITY OF LOS ANGELES, CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES LIMITED all were painted in streamliner colors. All four of the former C&NW cars were sold to Mexico for further service. The UP cars were not retired until 1970-71 and all but four were sold to other railroads or tourist services. The UP retained four; one for Work train service and three were assigned to the UP business fleet.

48-SEAT DINING CARS American Car & Foundry January – April 1949 (Built for and assigned to CITY fleet)

C&NW

6956-6959

UP

4800-4816

In April – May 1949 the UP received six 6-crew dormitory buffet 39-seat lounge cars 6100 – 6105. These cars were initially assigned to the CITY OF LOS ANGELES and later operated in the LOS ANGELES LIMITED and even operated in the CHALLENGERS for a brief period. All of these cars were retired in 1970-71 and sold for further service.

8-CREW DORMITORY BUFFET 39-SEAT LOUNGE CARS American Car & Foundry April – May 1949 (Built for and assigned to CITY service)

UP

6100 – 6105

Ten new Café-Lounge cars were delivered to the UP and C&NW for assignment to the CITY OF PORTLAND and CITY OF LOS ANGELES in May – June 1949. These cars were numbered C&NW 7800 – 7802 and UP 5000 – 5006. These cars were assigned to the coach passengers of those streamliners and seated 24 in the dining section and 29 in the lounge. The C&NW cars were withdrawn from streamliner service in May 1955 and were assigned to 400 trains after that time. The three C&NW cars were retired in 1970. All seven UP cars were remodeled between May 1959 and May 1960 to 8-seat lunch counter 24-seat dining 16-seat lounge cars. After remodeling the cars were assigned to coach passengers of the CITY OF PORTLAND and CITY OF DENVER trains. Six of the seven UP cars were retired in 1967 and sold while the seventh 5004 remained on the UP until 1971 when it was sold to the Alaska Railroad for further service.

24-SEAT DINING 29-SEAT LOUNGE CARS American Car & Foundry May – June 1949 (Built for and assigned to CITY OF PORTLAND & CITY OF LOS ANGELES)

C&NW

7800-7802

UP

5000-5006

Twelve Barbershop Shower Stewards Room Buffet 39-seat lounge cars were delivered by American Car & Foundry in July 1949 to the UP and C&NW. Three of the cars 7900-7902 were C&NW owned and the other nine were UP owned. The UP cars were both numbered and named when delivered, and the named were removed between March and June 1956. These cars were assigned to Pullman passengers in the CITY streamliners. In 1959 all nine UP cars were remodeled with the barbershop equipment removed and the train stewards room was opened up as well and became a card playing area in these cars for eleven.

BARBERSHOP SHOWER STEWARDS ROOM BUFFET 39-SEAT LOUNGE CARS American Car & Foundry July 1949 (Built for and assigned to CITY streamliners)

C&NW

7900 – 7902

UP

6200 LOUP RIVER

6201 PLATTE RIVER

6202 COLUMBIA RIVER

6203 COLORADO RIVER

6204 GREEN RIVER

6205 MOJAVE RIVER

6206 PORTNEUF RIVER

6207 PAYETTE RIVER

6208 WEBER RIVER

In September 1950 the UP purchased the GM TRAIN OF TOMORROW and after repainting in Omaha sent the cars west in a CITY OF LOS ANGELES consist. From Los Angeles the cars traveled to there new home Portland Oregon where they were assigned to the UP Portland – Seattle pool trains. The two dome cars we are concerned with are the dome dining car SKY VIEW with 18 seats at tables in the dome arranges three tables for two on the right hand side facing forward and three tables for four on the left side. At the front of the dome were a condiment table and an electric dumbwaiter that brought the food from the kitchen located o the main level of the car forward of the dome. On the main level to the rear of the dome was another 18-seat dining room featuring three regular dining tables for four and three tables for two on the opposite side. The main dining areas of the car seated 36 total. In addition there was a private dining area beneath the dome for six. This area was opened up for extra dining space when not reserved for a private party. The Union Pacific assigned the number 8010 to the SKY VIEW in March 1956.
The other dome operated in the TRAIN OF TOMORROW of interest in this book is the MOON GLOW the trains dome lounge observation. The dome featured the usual 24-seats and the forward part of the main level was a cocktail lounge with seating for 13. Beneath the dome was the remainder of the cocktail lounge and the bar the seating beneath the dome was for 10. To the rear of the dome on the main level of the car was a desk and chair tucked in behind the stairs leading to the dome level in a private alcove. The main level to the rear of this alcove was arranged in a comfortable lounge setting with seating for 21. Originally this was the observation end of the car later squared off for mid-train operation. The car MOON GLOW was numbered 9015 in March 1956. This is the only TRAIN OF TOMORROW car that was saved, after rescue from a Pocatello scrap yard the car today is being restored by a Railroad Historical group at Ogden Utah.
In December 1953 American Car & Foundry delivered two Twin Unit Dining cars 5105 and 5106. Both cars carried the same number. These cars were nearly identical to those built for the CHALLENGER before WW II. The units were comprised of a 20-Crew Dormitory – Kitchen car and 52-seat Dining Room car attached to one another by draw bar. These two sets were assigned to the 1954 CITY OF DENVER consists. The new CITY OF DENVERS began service January 10, 1954. In 1956 the cars in each set were individually numbered 20-Crew Dormitory – Kitchen car 5105 became 5110 and 52-seat Dining Room Car 5105 was numbered 5111. The other set with 20-Crew Dormitory – Kitchen car 5106 was renumbered 5112 and 52-seat dining room car 5106 was renumbered 5113.

TWIN UNIT DINING SETS 20-CREW DORMITORY – KITCHEN CAR – 52-SEAT DINING ROOM CAR American Car & Foundry December 1953 (Built for and assigned to CITY OF DENVERS)

5105-5105, 5106 – 5106

Between February and April 1955 the UP received fifteen Dome Lounge Observations with a squared off observation end complete with neon lighted tail sign identifying which streamliner they were built for. The cars built by American Car & Foundry were among the finest domes built construction was mainly of Aluminum with the dome area that holds the glass constructed of stainless steel, This framing was constructed by Budd for American Car and Foundry, which explains why the UP domes so closely resembled Budd domes in appearance. The only difference between the two makes of domes was that AC&F requested curved glass panels instead of flat glass panels like Budd offered in there standard domes. The interiors of these dome lounge Observations were identical to that built for the TRAIN OF TOMORROW car. Forward of the dome on the main level was a cocktail lounge seating with seating for 12. Beneath the dome was the remainder of the cocktail lounge and lounge the seating was for ten passengers. There was a desk and chair on the main level to the rear tucked in behind the stairs leading to the dome level for the use of any sleeping car passenger wishing to write letters. The main level to the rear of this alcove was arranged in a lounge with comfortable seating for 21. The interiors of the cars were decorated in three different styles to suit the territory the cars were assigned to operate through giving them some local flavor. Dome observations 9000 – 9004 were built for and assigned to the CITY OF LOS ANGELES consists. Dome Observations 9005 – 9009 were built for and assigned to the CITY OF PORTLAND consists, and 9010 – 9014 were built for and assigned to the CITY OF ST. LOUIS cars. All of these cars lost their distinctive tail-signs and were fitted with a diaphragm at the Observation end to permit mid-train operation. This is exactly where the cars were moved to operate directly behind the dining cars.

24-SEAT DOME BAR 44-SEAT LOUNGE OBSERVATON CARS American Car & Foundry February – April 1955 (Built for and assigned to CITY OF LOS ANGELES – CITY OF PORTLAND – CITY OF ST. LOUIS)

CITY OF LOS ANGELES

9000 – 9004

CITY OF PORTLAND

9005 – 9009

CITY OF ST. LOUIS

9010 – 9014

Dome –Dining cars joined the streamliner fleet in April – May 1955, for assignment to the CITY OF LOS ANGELES and CITY of PORTLAND consists. These cars numbered 8000 – 8009 were built with a kitchen in the short main level of the car ahead of the dome the pantry was located under the dome occupying ½ of this space. The other ½ of the area beneath the dome was occupied by a ten-seat dining room. This was the reserve dining area used only during peak travel periods or when reserved by passengers traveling in groups or when movie stars or other VIPS traveling required privacy. To the rear of the under dome area in the long main level area was a dining room with three round tables for four and three round tables for two giving this dining room seating for 18. The dome area seated an additional eighteen passengers for dining at conventional type dining seating with three tables for two along one side of the dome and three tables for four along the other side of the dome. Food was delivered to the dome level by an electric dumbwaiter located at the front of the dome. There was also a condiment area and bread warmer as well as toaster located at the front of the dome. Those dome –dining cars 8000-8004 built for the CITY OF LOS ANGELES were decorated in a Hollywood theme, while those built for the CITY OF PORTLAND 8005 – 8009 were decorated in Rose patterns as Portland is known as the city of Roses.
Total dining capacity of the cars was 46 seats when the reserve dining room was used.
These cars were not popular with crews as the kitchen and dome was always hot and the air conditioning system was unable to adequately cool these areas of the cars during the hot summer months.

46-SEAT DOME DINING CARS American Car & Foundry April – May 1955 (Built for and assigned to CITY OF LOS ANGELES and CITY OF PORTLAND)

CITY OF LOS ANGELES

8000 – 8004

CITY OF PORTLAND

8005 – 8009

Several prewar CITY streamliner feature cars were transferred to UP ownership and renumbered between May 1955 and March 1956 soon after renumbering the cars lost their names as follows:
MAY 1955

1575 SUN VALLEY lounge observation originally LA-901 SUN VALLEY

1576 NOB HILL lounge observation originally SF-901 NOB HILL

JULY 1955

1504 HOLLYWOOD Buffet Lounge Car originally LA-703 HOLLYWOOD

MARCH 1956

4817 BILTMORE Dining Car originally CP 607 BILTMORE

4818 AMBASSADOR Dining Car originally CP-608 AMBASSADOR

5007 MISSION INN Café Lounge Car originally LA 611

5008 HACIENDA Café Lounge Car originally LA 612

6107 EMBARCADERO Crew Dormitory Lounge Car originally CP 103

American Car and Foundry delivered four Lunch Counter Dining cars to the UP in June 1956 for assignment to the CITY OF ST. LOUIS. Only four cars were built as they only operated between Denver and Los Angeles. Five would have been required for through St. Louis – Los Angeles service. The four cars were numbered 4000 – 4003. These cars seated 20 at one of the longest lunch counters on a streamlined passenger car. There were also four tables for four at one end of the car.

The 4000 was assigned to the CITY OF LAS VEGAS between Los Angeles and Las Vegas round trip daily beginning September 15, 1957 with 4002 held in reserve for this service.
In 1960 the cars were shopped and the Lunch Counter seats were removed and a cafeteria service area replaced the lunch counter. The tables were also removed and seating only was provided for 16 against the walls of the car where the dining area had formally been located.

20-SEAT LUNCH COUNTER 16-SEAT DINING AREA CARS American Car & Foundry June 1955 (Built for and assigned to CITY OF ST. LOUIS)

4000 – 4003

The Union Pacific placed an order with St. Louis car in July 1958 for 10-cars to be assigned to the CITY OF PORTLAND and CHALLENGER. In winter months those cars assigned to the CHALLENGER operated in the combined CITY OF LOS ANGELES – CHALLENGER. The new cars were delivered between August and December 1959 and served the coach passengers of the trains mentioned. The cars were numbered 5007-5016. One 5015 was retained by the UP business car fleet three were sold privately in 1971 5007, 5011, and 5016. Three were sold to the Alaska Railroad in 1971 5012,5013, and 5014. The remaining three were sold to Amtrak in 1974.

8-SEAT LUNCH COUNTER 24-SEAT DINING 16-SEAT LOUNGE CARS St. Louis Car Company August – December 1959 (Built for and assigned to CITY OF PORTLAND and CHALLENGER)

5007 – 5016

Two AMERICAN series 6-Section 6- Roomette 4 Double Bedroom sleeping cars built by American Car & Foundry in March – April 1950 were shopped in Omaha in 1962 and two sections were removed a small buffet and dining area occupied the space where the two sections had previously been. The two cars rebuilt in this manner were AMERICAN GENERAL and AMERICAN VIEW. They were assigned to the BUTTE SPECIAL, trains operating nightly in each direction between Salt Lake City and Butte.

TTFN Al

[siberianmo]

ENCORE! ENCORE! ENCORE! ENCORE!

PASSENGER TRAIN NOSTALGIA #10

Here’s something to enjoy regarding the Union Pacific from an advertisement in The Official Guide of the Railways – Aug 1956



Overnight – Every night
between CHICAGO & DENVER
Streamliner ”CITY of DENVER”

THIS SMART STREAMLINER FEATURES . . .

* The very latest in Pullman equipment; de luxe
bedrooms with newly designed, convenient
lavatory facilities. Modern roomettes . . . no
need to step into the aisle to lower or raise bed.
Also long length, restful berths.

* Coach seats built for complete comfort. Stretch-
Out leg rests and reclining backs. All seats
Reserved.

* Unusually attractive dining car serving highest
Quality of freshly prepared foods.

* Beautiful club lounge for Pullman occupants
and distinctive tavern car ”The PUB” for all
passengers.

Early morning arrival in both Denver and Chicago

WESTBOUND
Lv. Chicago (Milw. Road) ………. 4:30 p.m.
Ar. Denver (U. P.) .……………….. 8:30 a.m.

EASTBOUND
Lv. Denver (U. P.) .……………….. 3:30 p.m.
Ar. Chicago (Milw. Road) ………. 8:45 a. m.

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD


Enjoy! [tup]

Tom[4:-)][oX)]


ENCORE! ENCORE! ENCORE! ENCORE!

[siberianmo]

G'day!

The final three for this day . . .


CP "The Canadian" Banff obs dome (foto credit: CP)



CP "The Canadian" Banff dome obs (foto credit: CP)



CP "The Canadian" Banff dome obs (foto credit: CP)


Later! [tup]

Tom[4:-)] [oX)]

[siberianmo]

G'day!

Some more . . . .


CP "The Canadian" Banff obs dome (foto credit: CP)



CP "The Canadian" departing Banff (1955) (foto credit: CP)



CP "The Canadian" (foto credit: CP)


Later! [tup]

Tom[4:-)] [oX)]

[siberianmo]

G'day!

And some more . . .


CP "The Canadian" "Wascana" diner (foto credit: CP)



CP "The Canadian" Chateau class sleeper (foto credit: CP)



CP "The Canadian" Manor class sleeper (foto credit: CP)


Later! [tup]

Tom[4:-)] [oX)]

[siberianmo]

G'day!

Continuing on with CP . . .


CP "The Canadian" baggage & baggage dormitory cars (foto credit: CP)



CP "The Canadian" coach (foto credit: CP)



CP "The Canadian" Skyline dome-cafe car (foto credit: CP)



Later! [tup]

Tom[4:-)] [oX)]

[siberianmo]

G'day!

Some Pix to go along with the Canadian Theme from Saturday . . . .


CP "The Canadian" (foto credit: CP)



CP "The Canadian" baggage car (foto credit: CP)



CP "The Canadian" baggage dormitory car (foto credit: CP)



Later! [tup]

Tom[4:-)] [oX)]

[siberianmo]

PASSENGER TRAIN NOSTALGIA #70

Here’s something to enjoy regarding the Canadian National Railways (CNR) from a 1933 advertisement in my personal collection.



THE VACATION YOU’VE DREAMED OF COSTS LESS THAN EVER THIS YEAR IF YOU SPEND IT IN CANADA

JASPER PARK

in the

CANADIAN ROCKIES

Here’s a vacation of a thousand thrills: Maligne lake whose waters offer the finest brook trout fishing on this continent and mirror mountain scenes of almost incredible beauty! The famous drive to Mt. Edith Cavell with its dazzling Angel Glacier . . . The Pocahontas Highway where mountain sheep and goats, deer and black bears often pose for camera hunters . . . Golf on a championship course with breath-taking views from every fairway. Swimming in a warmed outdoor pool . . . tennis . . . trail riding . . . mountain-climbing with Swiss guides.

The friendly hospitality of Jasper Park Lodge is as much a part of this perfect vacation as the mountains themselves. Luxurious accommodations. Perfect food. Rates from $7.00 a day, Canadian funds, for room and meals (10% discounts for two weeks or more). Season June 1- September 23. Booklets, travel films and all information from any office below.

1933 SPORTING EVENTS
Riding, swimming, hiking, mountain climbing with Swiss guides and every vacation sport. July 1 – the Rodeo. September 2-9 – Totem Pole Golf Tournament.

CANADIAN NATIONAL

To Everywhere in Canada

BOSTON . . . . . . . . . . . . KANSAS CITY . . . . . PORTLAND, Me.
186 Tremont St. . . . . . . . 705 Walnut St. . . . . . Grand Trunk Ry Sta.

BUFFALO . . . . . . . . . . . LOS ANGELES . . . . . St. LOUIS
420 Main St. . . . . . . . . . .607 So Grand Ave. . . .314 No Broadway

CHICAGO. . . . . . . . . . . . MINNEAPOLIS . . . . . St. PAUL
4 So.Michigan Blvd.. . . . . 654 Marquette Ave. . . 83 East Fifth St.

CINCINNATI . . . . . . . . . . NEW YORK . . . . . . . .SAN FRANCISCO
49 E. Fourth St.. . . . . . . . 673 Fifth Ave.. . . . . . . 648 Market St.

DETROIT. . . . . . . . . . . . . PHILADELPHIA. . . . . SEATTLE
1524 Washington Blvd.. . . 1422 Chestnut St... . . 1329 Fourth St.

DULUTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . .PITTSBURGH . . . . . .Washington, D.C.
428 W Superior St. . . . . . . 355 Fifth Ave. . . . . . .15th & H Sts. NW

. . . . . . . . . . LONDON, Eng. . . . . . . . . . PARIS, France
. . . . . . . . . . 17-19 Cockspur St. . . . . . . 1 rue Scribe


Enjoy! [tup]

Tom [4:-)][oX)]

[siberianmo]

PASSENGER TRAIN NOSTALGIA #53

Here’s something to enjoy regarding the Canadian National Railways (CNR) from a 1949 advertisement in my personal collection.



one of Canada’s 10 most popular VACATIONS

ENJOY the best that Canada offers. Play in the mountain-and-sea setting of the glorious West Coast (Vancouver harbor) or see the sights of her Eastern Cities: Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec, Halifax . . . You go in comfort by Canadian National, the railway to everywhere in Canada.

”East or West, we’ll show you
CANADA’s BEST!”

EXPLORE the snug harbors, the historic towns, the “picture places” of Canada’s Maritime Provinces (Lunenburg, Nova Scotia). The Ocean Limited, the International Limited and other Canadian National “name trains give easy access to all Eastern Canada.

BE THE GUEST of the largest railway system in North America . . . traveling happy-go-lazy to choice vacation areas . . . stopping at Canadian National resorts and big city hotels of distinction. To California and anywhere West, to New York and anywhere East, go Canadian National. “We’ll tell you where and take you there!”


CANADIAN NATIONAL

THE RAILWAY TO EVERYWHERE IN CANADA


Enjoy!

Tom [4:-)][oX)]

[siberianmo]

PASSENGER TRAIN NOSTALGIA #29

Here’s something to ponder with regard to our appreciation and fascination with
Classic Trains. Check out this advertisement regarding the Canadian Pacific from 1950:


18 vacation delights seeing
EAST-to-West Canada

Value-minded travelers go Canadian Pacific!

Want your vacation sunny and salty? With family fun?

1. It’s waiting in down-east Nova Scotia at the Digby Pines, a picturesque hotel and cottage colony. 2. Your comfort’s in the good care of Canadian Pacific. 3. Like “another world” city? See Old Québec. 4. Ride in a Calèche. 5. Shop winding streets. 6.Visit Ste. Anne de Beaupré, 7. Or Isle d'Orléans! 8. Relax gaily at Canadian Pacific’s great Château Frontenac! 9. Onward! By Canadian Pacific train, notred for food and service. 10. Stop in gay Montréal, queenly Ottawa or colorful Toronto. 11. But stay and Play in Ontario’s lake-and-woods country! 12.Westward! Along the scene north shore of Lake Superior and across rolling prairies. 13. Then through the sky-high Canadian Rockies try Canadian Pacific Diesel train! 14 Stop at Banff Springs and Lake Louise and see unparalleled beauty! 15. Roll on by Canadian Pacific through Evergreen scenery. 16. Visit Victoria and reel in roses! 17. Stay there the Empress set in famous gardens! 18. Golf, swimming, sailing, fishing . . . take your choice!

Ask your travel agent about a world of service: To Europe by White Empress ships. Two Canadian Pacific air routes; to the Far East, or New Zealand and Australia. Across Canada, 19 fine hotels and resorts.

Canadian Pacific
See your local agent or Canadian Pacific in principal cities in U.S. and Canada


Enjoy! [tup]

Tom[4:-)][oX)]

[siberianmo]

Hi Ed

[#welcome] aboard! I see this is your 1st Post on the Forums - and I'd say you're off to a good start. [tup]

Suggest you do a search on the web for "Great Northern Railway" and you'll be amazed at how much you'll find.

You are also invited to swing by the bar over at "Our" Place on this Forum - which is for adults who enjoy talking about "Classic Trains" while having a bit of fun doing so. As with any other Thread (site) it's far better to check out Page One in order to get an idea of what's going on, etc.

Hope to see ya again!

Tom[4:-)][oX)]

[Anonymous]

As a kid and teenager I and my mom would use the GN Red River to get up to our lake home (getting off at Fergus Falls where my dad would meet us and we'd drive to the lake). I've always considered it one of the most beautiful GN streamliners ever built -- the interiors of the cars were remarkable. The coaches if I recall correctly were done in a color scheme of rose, salmon pink, silver gray, charcoal gray, and walls of a cream yellow. Does anyone know of or have any photos of the interiors of this remarkable train set? They (and the artwork inside the cars) were exceptional, in league with the Empire Builder.
Ed Mikkola, Golden Valley, MN

[siberianmo]

ENCORE! Saturday - ENCORE! Saturday



PASSENGER TRAIN NOSTALGIA #6

Here’s something to ponder with regard to our appreciation and fascination with
Classic Trains. Check this poster out regarding the Canadian Pacific from the 1950’s:



Canadian Pacific … by land … across Canada

Now see Canadian Pacific’s spectacular Banff-Lake Louise Route - From the Scenic Domes of the “The Canadian”

Mile-high in the Canadian Rockies, Banff Springs is famous the world over for its scenic surroundings, complete outdoor recreation facilities. Both Banff and nearby Lake Louise are on the route of “The Canadian.”

Treat yourself to the world’s longest, most spectacular Scenic Dome ride as “The Canadian” winds through the Canadian Rockies on its transcontinental route. From high in the Scenic Domes of Canada’s only stainless-steel Scenic Dome streamliner you’ll thrill to the breath-taking view of Canada’s unspoiled natural beauty. And aboard “The Canadian” you’ll find the accommodations superb, the service unexcelled. You may travel tourist or first class – coach seats reserved at no extra fare.

See your travel agent for information about “The Canadian” – in daily service throughout the year between Montreal or Toronto, and Vancouver.

Canadian Pacific
World’s Greatest Travel System

RAILWAYS – STEAMSHIPS – AIRLINES – HOTELS – COMMUNICATIONS – EXPRESS


Enjoy! [tup]

Tom[4:-)][oX)]