| This was car 158 on the 1975 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey blue train. It was originally 4-compartment/4-double-bedroom/2-drawing-room sleeper IMPERIAL HARBOR, built for service on the OVERLAND ROUTE between Chicago and Oakland via the C&NW, UP and SP. It was built by Pullman-Standard as a Plan 4069H car in Lot 6688 and placed in service on 25 March 1942. It became an SP car on 31 December 1945, had its name replaced with the number 9100 on 8 July 1949, and was withdrawn from Pullman lease on 20 October 1967. It was sold to Judge Roy Hofheinz of Houston before moving on to Ringling Brothers. The little windows are for the upper berths of the compartments. The car was photographed in the Illinois Central Gulf's Poydras Yard. At that time, the Ringling cars did not wear any reporting mark. |