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Owner: Amtrak
Type: Passenger Car
AAR Class: PA: Car equipped to handle passengers.
AAR Type: M500
Detail Info:   Misc Cars
AMTK Class:   Heritage
User Notes:   PLACID LAKE, 11DB sleeper, ex-UP #1504, P-S, 1956, to AEE BERLIN/AOE/RPCX #2263/PPCX #800255

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Slumbercoach
Title:  Slumbercoach
Description:  One of the more economic ways to travel and get a sleeper was the Slumbercoach. They had single and double units, available for only $15 over coach fare for a single when this was taken. The rooms were tiny, but beat the snot out of sleeping in a coach seat. This one is westbound on the Broadway-as if the signal was not a giveaway!!
Photo Date:  5/20/1986  Upload Date: 11/21/2014 3:07:34 AM
Location:  Marysville, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Signal,Passenger,Action
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Views:  398   Comments: 1
AOE Berlin
Title:  AOE Berlin
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/1/1999  Upload Date: 9/8/2008 6:14:50 PM
Location:  Savannah, GA
Author:  G Gerard
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  1122   Comments: 0
#800255 BERLIN
Title:  #800255 BERLIN
Description:  Built in 1956 by P-S in Lot #6958 to Plan #4198 as UP 11DB sleeper PLACID LAKE, 1 of 10 such cars built in that Lot, which was ordered in September 1954; cars were delivered between February and March 1956. In 1969, these cars were assigned #15xx-series numbers, the PLACID LAKE was assigned #1504, which was applied in July 1969. In 1971, Amtrak acquired all 10 of these cars as #2260-#2269, the #1504 as #2263. The #2263 was retired in October 1980 and sold in 1981 to the Indiana RY Museum in French Lick. The car was later sold to American European Express and renamed BERLIN. AOE reconfigured the car to 2 state rooms and 7 bedrooms, and after the end of AOE operations, it was sold to Kevin Moore. EXIF: 3:22 PM, f/5.6 @ 1/500
Photo Date:  8/25/2012  Upload Date: 10/27/2014 5:02:28 AM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Ted Brumberg
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  925   Comments: 0


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