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A private railroad car, private railway coach, private car, or private varnish is a railroad passenger car either originally built or later converted for service as a business car for private individuals. A private car could be added to the make-up of a train or pulled by a private locomotive, providing privacy for its passengers. [1] They were ...
During World War II, sister car Ferdinand Magellan was rebuilt as the official presidential private car; after the war, the Roald Amundsen was surplus to the Pullman Company's requirements and was sold, and became a business car for the New York Central Railroad. In 1971 it was donated to the McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park in Scottsdale ...
The Ferdinand Magellan (also known as U.S. Car. No. 1) is a former Pullman Company private car that served as Presidential Rail Car, U.S. Number 1 from 1943 until 1958. It is named after the Portuguese explorer. The current owner, Gold Coast Railroad Museum in Miami-Dade County, Florida, acquired it in 1959.
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Georgia 300 [1] [2] is a heavyweight observation car from the golden era of rail travel that was built by the Pullman Standard Co. shops in 1930. [1] [3] Sporting a Packard blue with silver striping livery, the train car operated as a lounge car named the General Polk on the New Orleans-New York Crescent Limited (operated by the L&N, West Point Route, Southern, and Pennsylvania [4]), and was ...
Procor is a Canadian company producing railway shipping cars. It is Canada's largest private rail car rental fleet, with more than 30,000 conventional and special-purpose tank and freight cars. Linked to Sparling Tank Car of Toronto, [1] Procor was founded in 1952 as Products Tank Line Limited and became an affiliate of US-based Union Tank Car ...
In 1925, passenger travel reached an all-time high, with over 85,000 people paying to ride the railway. [28] To keep up with the growing popularity of private automobiles, the YVRR started offering auto ferrying services, building special platforms at Merced and El Portal to load cars for the trip to the Valley and back.
Some of its key clients were GO Transit, MARC Train, Réseau de transport métropolitain, and Metrolink. NCTD Coaster Phase II livery Bombardier BiLevel Coach cab car at the San Diego Santa Fe Depot. Train operation: Bombardier Transportation operated a number of commuter and light rail systems under contract with various transit agencies.