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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]
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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 Company .
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The first private car was C&NW 6700 and was named "The Deerpath". [2] [3] Car 553 was originally built for the Chicago and North Western Railway in 1949 by the American Car and Foundry Company as car 7901. [4] It was originally used as a lounge and barbershop car on City of Los Angeles, a long distance train service between Chicago and Los ...
Auto Train is the only motorail service in the United States. [4] Passengers ride in coach seats or private sleeping car rooms while their vehicles are carried in enclosed automobile-carrying freight cars called autoracks. The train can carry up to 340 vehicles. The train also includes lounge cars and dining cars.
The Superb was used as U.S. President Warren G. Harding's personal Pullman railroad car in a cross-country tour in 1923. After Harding's death, the car returned his body from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. Built in 1911, it is the second-oldest steel private car in existence.
In Japan, private sector railway (私鉄 or 民鉄, Shitetsu or Mintetsu), commonly simply private railway, refers to a public transit railway owned and operated by private sector, almost always organized as a joint-stock company, or in Japanese: kabushiki gaisha (lit. stock company), but may be any type of private business entity.