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Catherine II's carved, painted and gilded Coronation Coach (Hermitage Museum) A coach is a large, closed, four-wheeled, passenger-carrying vehicle or carriage usually drawn by two or more horses controlled by a coachman, a postilion, or both. A coach has doors in its sides and a front and a back seat inside.
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 ...
Like standard lounge cars, these had seats and couches facing away from windows and toward the aisles. Many of these were equipped with radios with which to play music via radio or recordings. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The Seaboard’s Silver Meteor in particular was well known to have kept its tavern-lounge-observation car on the end of the train ...
The 72 standard coaches could seat between 76 and 82 passengers depending on the seating configuration and 14 accessible coaches could seat 72 and included space for a wheelchair. [2] The entire coach fleet was later rebuilt to be accessible, with cars now seating between 68 and 72 passengers depending on the seating configuration. [3]
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These cars had a snack bar in the center, 18 club seats in a 2×1 configuration, and 23 coach seats. [57] These cars provided first class service on select trains. [ 19 ] Amtrak later referred to these as "split" Amclubs; club cars rebuilt with all-club style seating were called "full" Amclubs.
1931 Ford Model A sport roadster featuring a rumble seat. A rumble seat (American English), dicky (dickie/dickey) seat (British English), also called a mother-in-law seat, [1] is an upholstered exterior seat which folded into the rear of a coach, carriage, or early motorcar. Depending on its configuration, it provided exposed seating for one or ...
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