BTW…they were painted the same colors as Southern passenger cars, body and lettering. The cars may appear longer than normal, they were only 10’ high, not the later standard 10’-6” for 40 and

Here’s what they looked like in service. The conversion to passenger service came fairly late in the game - 1951, at Hayne. They were converted from 50’ freight boxcars built by Mt. Vernon Car in

The trucks, and length of Sou 960600 point to it being one of the Southern’s 50’ express box cars 3275-3299. All were standard 50’ box cars modified for express service and eventually restored

Yes they are porthole windows. It might be easier to cut them out of the shell from an E or F unit. Sent from AT&T Yahoo Mail on Android

Great pictures. Are those porthole windows? Does anyone make porthole windows? I might try and do the flange on my cheap 3D printer and see. Thanks! Sent from Rob's iPhone Xs

Charlie's memory is pretty good. Here is the car in storage in Chattanooga If you look closely you can see the old number under the new:

The Heater Cars were first used on Alco road switchers. The Alcos were used as headend power for passenger trains to ferry them from Spencer to Pegram shop for maintenance.

Felix is talking about pre-Amtrak or early-Amtrak days. Some years after Amtrak began operating, in the 1980s I think, they got some federal money to enlarge the clearances in the Capitol Hill tunnels

I was thinking the same thing about the 38-2. Seems like anything out of the norm for Southern passenger trains didn’t fit through that tunnel. Jason Greene

Back in the 70s Southern ran "School Boy Patrols" out of Atlanta to Washington DC. These were week end events in which various school systems in the Atlanta area would send middle schoolers to DC by

That solves it! Thanks, Rob

If my memory is correct, when the heater car first showed up in Chattanooga and was loaned to TVRM for supplying steam to the cars that were stored at Terminal Station it was HC-50. At some point it

Thanks for the info.

There is a heater car that appears to be made from an express box car. It has a 900000 number so I don't know for sure that it is HC-50. Tim Andrews

It was a great job -- extra board out of Chicago as a service attendant and then as a lead service attendant. The Chicago crew base held almost all assignments except some of #7 and #8 (some Seattle

Wow, you really got around the country.

My experiences go back to when I was a service attendant for Amtrak during the summer seasons of 1977, 1979, and 1980. The service attendants usually went to a different hotel than the transportation

Or the cruise on the Crescent based out of New Orleans or Washington, or both?

As I remember it, the attendants’ jackets did seem to look to be styled a little bit like a sports jacket or blazer, but without the lining or construction. They were also shorter, but I remember

When office car NS-8 arrived at TVRM, I was looking in the closets and discovered several what I’d call “attendants’ jackets, soiled but in good condition. Someday, I expect they will find a new