4449 Heads East for Train Festival 2009: Private Cars in Portland on October 23, 2009

…Continued from Private Cars in Portland on October 22, 2009.

NYC #3 Portland leaving Portland, Oregon on October 23, 2009

The next day, October 23, 2009, New York Central #3 Portland was added to the southbound Coast Starlight.

NYC #3 Portland leaving Portland, Oregon on October 23, 2009

The car was eventually bound for Bethel, Connecticut via Oakland, Denver, Chicago and New York City's Penn Station.

NSRX #202 Wenonah in Portland, Oregon on October 23, 2009

North Star Rail's #3101 and #202 were coupled to the eastbound Empire Builder, which again made them difficult to photograph. This view of #202 was taken from the Broadway Bridge.

Amtrak P42DC #170 in Portland, Oregon on October 23, 2009

Amtrak P42DC #170 now led the Empire Builder as it departed with North Star Rail #202 and #3101, bound for home in Minnesota.

NSRX #202 Wenonah in Portland, Oregon on October 23, 2009

Their departure finally offered the opportunity for reasonably good photos of the two cars.

NSRX #202 Wenonah in Portland, Oregon on October 23, 2009

NSRX #3101 in Portland, Oregon on October 23, 2009

NSRX #3101 in Portland, Oregon on October 23, 2009

Goombay Sunrise in Portland, Oregon on October 23, 2009

GBRX #800224 Goombay Sunrise was the only private passenger car remaining at Union Station, sitting alone on Track 1.

Goombay Sunrise in Portland, Oregon on October 23, 2009

Goombay Sunrise in Portland, Oregon on October 23, 2009

4449 Heads East for Train Festival 2009: Private Cars in Portland on October 22, 2009

…Continued from Private Cars in Portland on October 21, 2009.

NYC #3 Portland in Portland, Oregon on October 22, 2009

The next day, October 22, 2009, NYC #3 and Goombay Sunrise had been turned.

NYC #3 Portland in Portland, Oregon on October 22, 2009

They were coupled together at the north end of Track 1.

Goombay Sunrise in Portland, Oregon on October 22, 2009

North Star Rail's #3101 and #202 were unturned behind them, where pictures were impossible.

Amtrak P42DC #170 in Portland, Oregon on October 22, 2009

Amtrak P42DC #170 was added to the eastbound Empire Builder to provide extra muscle to pull MKT Business Car #403, Sleeping Car Minnesota River, Super Dome #53 & Skytop Observation Cedar Rapids, which doubled the regular length of the Empire Builder's Portland section.

MKT #403 leaving Portland, Oregon on October 22, 2009

Minnesota River leaving Portland, Oregon on October 22, 2009

Super Dome #53 leaving Portland, Oregon on October 22, 2009

Cedar Rapids leaving Portland, Oregon on October 22, 2009

Cedar Rapids leaving Portland, Oregon on October 22, 2009

Cedar Rapids leaving Portland, Oregon on October 22, 2009

Cedar Rapids leaving Portland, Oregon on October 22, 2009

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4449 Heads East for Train Festival 2009: Goombay Sunrise

…Continued from Private Cars leave Portland on October 21, 2009.

Goombay Sunrise in Portland, Oregon on October 21, 2009

Amtrak #170 also had GBRX #800224 Goombay Sunrise with it when it took Caritas, Colonial Crafts, Silver Lariat, Silver Rapids and Silver Solarium around the loop at Lake Yard and coupled them onto the Coast Starlight, but it wasn't coupled to the train and stayed with #170 as it went beck to Track 1.

Goombay Sunrise in Portland, Oregon on October 21, 2009

This car was originally built by Pullman-Standard in 1950 as Chesapeake & Ohio #2500 Blue Ridge Club. It is one of eight such blunt-end observation cars built for Chesapeake & Ohio. It originally had 5 double bedrooms, a buffet and a 26-seat observation lounge.

Goombay Sunrise in Portland, Oregon on October 21, 2009

In late 1961 the car was rebuilt into a dormitory-diner configuration with three crew bedrooms, a kitchen and a 28 seat dining room and renumbered to #1923. It later became Amtrak #8200.

Goombay Sunrise in Portland, Oregon on October 21, 2009

The GBRX reporting mark belongs to Greenbrier, the parent company of Portland railcar builder Gunderson, so Portland may be this car's home base, considering it didn't leave with any of the other private passenger cars, despite being moved around and turned on the loop more than once.

Goombay Sunrise in Portland, Oregon on October 21, 2009

I don't know the significance of the name Goombay Sunrise, but Goombay is the name of a drum and a musical style in the Bahamas, and a small bay on the island of St. Lucia, so perhaps that is in some way related.

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4449 Heads East for Train Festival 2009: Chesapeake & Ohio #3 Chapel Hill

…Continued from Caritas.

C&O #3 Chapel Hill in Wishram, Washington on July 3, 2009

Chapel Hill was built in 1922 in St. Charles, Missouri by American Car & Foundry as the private car Hussar for Post Cereals heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and her husband, stock broker and banker Edward Francis Hutton, who used the car to travel from their main home in New York City to their winter estate in Palm Beach and their summer home in the Adirondacks of upstate New York. They divorced in 1935 and Post kept the car. She promptly married Joseph E. Davies, a Washington D.C. attorney who was appointed US ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1937, and when they moved to the Soviet Union they sold the car to the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway.

C&O #3 Chapel Hill in Wishram, Washington on July 3, 2009

C&O installed an air conditioning system and the car became Office Car #2 and was renumbered several times before Office Car #3 became final. The car was modernized in 1957. In 1971 DeWitt Chapple, Jr. bought the car and named it Chapel Hill after his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapple was a founder of the American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners. In 2005, Jeffrey & Tracy McClorey became part owners of the Chapel Hill with Chapple.

C&O #3 Chapel Hill in Wishram, Washington on July 3, 2009

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