AMT Pacific Skies sleeper on SB Silver Star

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Ted Brumberg	General	Built in 1950 by Budd in Lot #9660-039 to Plan #9522 as UP 10RM-6DB sleeper PACIFIC SKIES, 1 of 50 PACIFIC-series cars built in that Lot, which was ordered in February 1948, cars were delivered between December 1949 and June 1950. Besides PACIFIC EMPIRE, which was wrecked in 1951, the other 49 cars were assigned #14xx-series numbers in 1969, the PACIFIC SKIES was assigned #1440, which was applied in October 1969. 5 cars were sold to the Milwaukee Road in 1969, 1 car was retained by UP, and the other 43 cars were sold to Amtrak in 1971 as #2600-#2642, PACIFIC SKIES as #2633. Besides 3 which were wrecked during Amtrak's first decade, the remaining 40 cars were converted to HEP in 3 batches, the first 13 cars were converted in 1977-1978, including PACIFIC SKIES, which was converted to HEP #2933 in November 1977. Between 1997 and 2000, Amtrak converted 14 of these 40 to crew dormitory-lounges, PACIFIC SKIES was converted to dormitory #2517 in September 1998. #2517 was retired in July	7/17/2014 3:16:17 PM

Ted Brumberg	General	#2517 was retired in July 2006. For more info on the PACIFIC-series sleepers, see Don Strack's Utah Rails website: http://utahrails.net/pass/named-lightweight-sleepers.php#sleeper-pacific-bay Tom Madden's Pullman Project CCR database: http://pullmanproject.com/Database.htm and this thread: http://www.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=36575	7/17/2014 3:20:50 PM

AMT Pacific Skies sleeper on SB Silver Star
Date: 9/1/1997	Location: Jacksonville, FL	Views: 483	Collection Of: G Gerard
			Author: G Gerard

Picture Categories: RollingStock		This picture is part of album: Amtrak Silver Service & Florida Fun Train 1997-1999