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The cars were numbered as sleeping cars numbers 11 to 14, previously Allambi, Tantini, Weroni and Dorai. The New Deal in 1983 resulted in the four Victorian Railways sleeping cars renumbered to SJ 281 to 284, and the carriages were repainted again, this time with orange replacing the blue, with V/Line logos on plates fitted to the left ends.
In 1941–42 the Pullman-Standard Company built two groups (60 "6-6-4" and 18 "4-1-4") of streamlined light-weight sleeping cars for the UP (54), SP (13) and C&NW (11) and three groups totaling 70 similar style head-end and chair cars for the UP for use on all their trains servicing their Overland Routes to the west coast from Los Angeles to ...
The cars were numbered as sleeping cars numbers 11 to 14, previously Allambi, Tantini, Weroni and Dorai. The New Deal in 1983 resulted in the four Victorian Railways sleeping cars renumbered to SJ 281 to 284, and the carriages were repainted again, this time with orange replacing the blue, with V/Line logos on plates fitted to the left ends.
In 2000, the carriage was renamed Chalaki after the former Overland sleeping car for use as the Overland's baggage car. HM 959 (originally 259) 1969-7-9 [18] N/A [18] Journey Beyond Rail Expeditions: Keswick Terminal, South Australia: Renumbered 959 in 1974 for Joint Stock accounting purposes. In 1996, the carriage was fitted with a smoking ...
The Slumbercoach is an 85-foot-long, 24 single room, eight double room streamlined sleeping car.Built in 1956 by the Budd Company for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad for service on the Denver Zephyr, subsequent orders were placed in 1958 and 1959 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and Missouri Pacific Railroad for the Texas Eagle/National Limited, then in 1959 by the Northern ...
In 1941 these cars were augmented by several lightweight 10-roomette 5-bedroom sleeping cars. [ 8 ] : 53–54 In January 1956 the B&O acquired three River-series sleeper-buffet-lounge-observation cars originally built in 1939 by Pullman-Standard for the New York Central Railroad.
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A roomette is a type of sleeping car compartment in a railroad passenger train. The term was first used in North America , and was later carried over into Australia and New Zealand . Roomette rooms are relatively small, and were originally generally intended for use by a single person; contemporary roomettes on Amtrak , however, include two ...