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Owner: Amtrak
Type: Passenger Car
AAR Class: FA: Flat car specifically equipped with superstructure or containers for transporting set-up vehicles, not suitable for miscellaneous commodities.
AAR Type: V967
Detail Info:   Vehicular Flat Cars, Bi-level rack, single unit, fully enclosed with doors and roof, High level, Extreme Height: less than 18ft 10in, Doors: Full height, All other (including Bi-Fold, Three Piece, Wire Mesh, etc.)
AMTK Class:   Steam Heat
User Notes:   SILVER PENTHOUSE, Dome Sleeper Lounge Observation, ex-CB&Q #376, Budd, 1948

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Amtrak Dome-Observation 9251 "Silver Penthouse"
Title:  Amtrak Dome-Observation 9251 "Silver Penthouse"
Description:  ex-CB&Q 376 "Silver Penthouse"
Photo Date:  7/1/1976  Upload Date: 11/13/2018 6:00:03 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Bob Jordan
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Amtrak Train No. 1
Title:  Amtrak Train No. 1
Description:  On the day after Christmas 1977 former CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR sleeper-lounge-observation car 9251 SILVER PENTHOUSE was bringing up the rear of the westbound SUNSET LIMITED as the train was pulling out of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. The 12-car train consisted of SDP40F units 619 and 542, baggage car 1172, high-level coaches 9931, 9958, 9955 and 9902, coach 4461, dormitory-lounge car 3393, diner 8031, sleepers 2619 PACIFIC MEADOW, 2505 BLUE MOTT and 2634 PACIFIC SLOPE, and SILVER PENTHOUSE.
Photo Date:  12/26/1977  Upload Date: 10/4/2020 9:44:37 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  PAUL H. OLIVER photo
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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