Wednesday, August 12, 2015

PNWC Coach #6200 at ORHF Holiday Express 2009

I originally posted this on my old website on February 13, 2010.

…Continued from DLMX #1210 Plum Creek.

IMG_0966 PNWC Coach #6200 in Portland, Oregon on December 4, 2009
PNWC Coach #6200 on December 4, 2009

This 56-reversible seat coach was built in 1939 by the Budd Company for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's Silver Meteor as #6200. It later became Seaboard Coast Line #5604, and became Amtrak #5604 in 1971.

IMG_1086 PNWC Coach #6200 in Portland, Oregon on December 11, 2009
PNWC Coach #6200 on December 11, 2009

It was purchased by the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society from the bankruptcy estate of the Seattle & North Coast Railroad in 1985. It was lettered for the Willamette & Pacific Railroad for a business excursion. A model of this car is in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Continue to DLMX #5659 Gordon N. Zimmerman

No comments:

Post a Comment