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Pictures of AMTK 2696
Owner:
Amtrak
Type:
Passenger Car
AAR Class:
PA
: Car equipped to handle passengers.
AAR Type:
M500
Detail Info:
Misc Cars
AMTK Class:
Steam Heat
User Notes:
10RM-6DB sleeper, ex-SP #9020, Budd, 1950, SUNSET LIMITED, to HEP #2451 BIRCH GROVE/PPCX #800736
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Title:
#800736 BIRCH GROVE
Description:
Built in 1950 by Budd in Lot #9660-040 to Plan #9522 as SP 10RM-6DB sleeper #9020, 1 of 25 such cars (#9000-#9024) built in that Lot, which was ordered in June 1948 for the SUNSET LIMITED; cars were delivered between March and June 1950. SP also ordered 5 10RM-6DB sleepers with blunt ends (#9025-#9029) for the SUNSET LIMITED in Lot #9678-040 to Plan #9522A. 20 of the Plan #9522 cars were sold in 1971 to Amtrak as #2680-#2699. 5 of these cars were either wrecked or sold during Amtraks first decade, the remaining 15 were converted to HEP in 1980-1981 as #2442-#2456. These 15 c`rs received GROVE-series names at that time. #2451 BIRCH GROVE was retired and sold in 1995 to Tom McOwen's Cincinnati Railway Company. For more info, see this thread: http://www.rypm.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=36660 1 of 28 private cars that arrived in Seattle over several days for the 2013 AAPRCO convention train to Napa, CA. EXIF: 4:08 PM, f/3 @ 1/320, ISO-100
Photo Date:
9/24/2013
Upload Date:
8/2/2014 4:21:36 AM
Location:
Seattle, WA
Author:
Ted Brumberg
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