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Except for the Pullman sleepers and heavyweights and the Bi-Level commuter cars and several smooth side coaches built for the Golden State and Golden Rocket and the Shasta Daylight, SP's cars for the Morning, Noon, Afternoon Daylights, San juaquin Daylight had stainless steel sheathing over corten steel frame work. The Sunset cars were built by Budd and delivered in Stainless steel with a red letter board above the window with silver-gray lettering and black accent stripes above and below the red stripe. Budds cars were compeletly made of stainless steel. After WWII, the Chessie placed the largest order for passenger cars but soon started canceling orders for the cars. Pullman 52 seat coach (model by Walthers)* C&O-1610-1668 D&RGW-1240-1247 SAL-6242-6251 renumbered to 5254-5263 C&NW 3483-3485 SP-2216-2218 NdeM-2216 Amtrak 5254-5263 and 5238-5243 C&O coach 1646 was rebuilt into a theater car in 1971 Taken from the article with drawing from Mainline Modler July 1987 by George A Trager Ch[:D]
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