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GN #1390 GLACIER VIEW
Title:  GN #1390 GLACIER VIEW
Description:  RE-UPLOAD due to missing file. Dome lounge, Budd, Lot #9679-155, 1955, EMPIRE BUILDER, to Amtrak #9360, retired in 1981 and traded in 1983 to BN as BNA #24, now BNSF #30/#800075. Scanned with an Epson V550 from an original Ektachrome 35mm slide. Date is approximate. Photographer is unknown.
Photo Date:  8/1/1971  Upload Date: 12/25/2024 10:55:41 PM
Location:  Havre, MT
Author:  Unknown
Categories:  Passenger
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BN glacier
Title:  BN glacier
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Photo Date:  1/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/30/2008 3:46:15 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  marc malnekoff
Categories:  RollingStock
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BN (BNA 24) Glacier View Business Car
Title:  BN (BNA 24) Glacier View Business Car
Description:  BN (BNA 24) Glacier View Business Car at Tennessee Yard.
Photo Date:  7/1/1986  Upload Date: 1/26/2007 4:54:24 PM
Location:  Memphis, TN
Author:  Eric Fleet
Categories:  Passenger
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BN Glacier
Title:  BN Glacier
Description:  Smile! BN mini passenger train from Galesburg - Galesburg railroad days
Photo Date:  1/1/1990  Upload Date: 2/4/2006 8:34:33 PM
Location:  Cameron, IL
Author:  Jim Matuska
Categories:  RollingStock
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BN Inspection Dome 24 "Glacier View"
Title:  BN Inspection Dome 24 "Glacier View"
Description:  Taken in the mid-1990s.
Photo Date:  1/1/1995  Upload Date: 4/16/2022 10:17:59 PM
Location:  Unknown, IL
Author:  Jay Williams
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BNSF #30 GLACIER VIEW
Title:  BNSF #30 GLACIER VIEW
Description:  Built in 1955 by Budd in Lot #9679-155 as GN full dome lounge #1390 GLACIER VIEW, 1 of 6 such domes (#1390-#1395) built in that Lot for the 1955 EMPIRE BUILDER, which was ordered in February 1954; cars were delivered between August and Octobev 1955. These Great Domes, in GN parlance, had 57 chairs and 18 lounge seats in the dome with a 34 seat club lounge on the lower level; one of the chairs was later removed to make room for a radio & tape cabinet. #1390-#1394 were owned by GN and #1395 was owned by CB&Q. In 1971, Amtrak acquired these 6 domes as #9360-#9365, the #1390 as #9360. The #9360 was retired in April 1981 and traded to BN in 1983 as #A24, with the addition oa a track inspection theater. For more info, see Phil Dohmen's website: http://www.trainweb.org/web_lurker/GNf/ and W. David Randall's "Streamliner Cars Volume 2". Photographed from the SB #11 COAST STARLIGHT. EXIF: 9:46 AM, f/4 @ 1/180
Photo Date:  8/5/2012  Upload Date: 10/27/2014 5:13:17 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Ted Brumberg
Categories:  Passenger
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BN B1
Title:  BN B1
Description:  (ex-GN, nee-PULL BURNS) Instruction car rblt. from Plan 3523 6 Compartment - 3 Drawing Room
Photo Date:  11/24/1971  Upload Date: 6/13/2013 6:26:20 AM
Location:  Milwaukee, WI
Author:  J.M. LaBoda scan collection
Categories:  Passenger
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BN B1
Title:  BN B1
Description:  (ex-GN, nee-PULL BURNS) Instruction car rblt. from Plan 3523 6 Compartment - 3 Drawing Room
Photo Date:  11/24/1971  Upload Date: 6/13/2013 6:26:24 AM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  J.M. LaBoda scan collection
Categories:  Passenger
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BN B1
Title:  BN B1
Description:  Burlington Northern Railroad B1 at Saint Paul, Minnesota on May 22, 1984, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Seen here out of service (number painted over) it was built in 1923 as a 6-5 Pullman sleeper, coverted by the GN to an air brake instruction car, used by the BN for the same purpose and later in Locotrol testing, and reportedly scarpped.
Photo Date:  5/22/1984  Upload Date: 1/31/2014 3:04:32 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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BN B1
Title:  BN B1
Description:  Burlington Northern Railroad B1 at Saint Paul, Minnesota on May 22, 1984, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Apparently it is off the roster at this photo date, the number is painted over. The following is excerpted from the 1975-76 BN Annual, by F. Hol Wagner:

Number B1 was built by Pullman in 1923 as a 6-compartment, 3 double bedroom sleeper named Burns. It was purchased by the Great Northern in September 1949 as Burns, rebuilt by the GN in August 1952 as air brake instruction car B1 (2nd) It became BN B1 in March 1970 and was later used in testing Locotrol operations.

Photo Date:  5/22/1984  Upload Date: 1/27/2014 3:42:25 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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BNSF #60 STEVENS PASS
Title:  BNSF #60 STEVENS PASS
Description:  Built in 1929 by Pullman in Lot #6249 to Plan #3990 as barber shop-37 seat buffet lounge sun room (solarium) observation DAVID C. SHEPARD, 1 of 8 such cars built in that Lot for the EMPIRE BUILDER, cars were delivered between May and June 1929. In February 1941, GN acquired 7 of these cars as #1070-#1076, the DAVID C. SHEPARD as #1073 (1st). In October 1954, the #1073 (1st) was rebuilt to the #1085 (2nd) for the Seattle-Portland pool, with a 10 seat buffet and 26 parlor seats; the car was streamlined, with a blunt end observation, and the AC changed from ice activated to Waukesha. Later, the #1085 (2nd) was redesignated rules instruction car #X-7853 (with the interior only slightly modified) which was renumbered as BN #B2 after the merger. In 1974, the #B2 was renumbered/named as #A11 DESCHUTES RIVER, which in 1982 was renumbered #B12; the #B12 was renumbered back to #A11 in 1989. The #A11 was later rebuilt by BNSF to sleeper lounge #60, with 4 state rooms, retaining the name DESCHUTES RIVER. After the STEVENS PASS (2nd) was sold in 2003, the DESCHUTES RIVER was renamed STEVENS PASS (3rd). Photographed from the SB #11 COAST STARLIGHT. EXIF: 9:46 AM, f/4 @ 1/250
Photo Date:  8/5/2012  Upload Date: 10/27/2014 11:27:59 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Ted Brumberg
Categories:  Passenger
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BNSF #60 STEVENS PASS
Title:  BNSF #60 STEVENS PASS
Description:  EXIF: 3:07 PM, f/3 @ 1/1000, ISO-100
Photo Date:  7/24/2016  Upload Date: 5/19/2019 11:35:43 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Ted Brumberg
Categories:  Passenger
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BN B3
Title:  BN B3
Description:  MOW - Instruction Car
Photo Date:  8/23/1974  Upload Date: 7/30/2016 9:40:27 PM
Location:  Klamath Falls, OR
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  RollingStock
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1001-20 BN B3 at St. Paul Union Depot (SPUD)
Title:  1001-20 BN B3 at St. Paul Union Depot (SPUD)
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/1/1975  Upload Date: 2/12/2010 12:49:00 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  John Hill
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Station,Passenger,Track
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1001-20a BN B3 at St. Paul Union Depot (SPUD)
Title:  1001-20a BN B3 at St. Paul Union Depot (SPUD)
Description:  Cropped copy of 1001-20
Photo Date:  7/1/1975  Upload Date: 2/12/2010 12:32:04 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  John Hill
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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BN B4
Title:  BN B4
Description:  (ex-GN B4, exx-GN 672, exxx-Pullman 4287, nee-"Idamar") Mod. HW Instruction car rblt. from 16 Sect sleeper.
Photo Date:  8/8/1973  Upload Date: 3/21/2007 1:29:14 AM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  John E. Tudek
Categories:  RollingStock
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BN B4 Safety Instruction Car
Title:  BN B4 Safety Instruction Car
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1980  Upload Date: 12/25/2012 7:20:35 AM
Location:  Galesburg, IL
Author:  Jerry Krueger
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BN B4
Title:  BN B4
Description:  Burlington Northern Railroad B4 at Aurora, Illinois on May 19, 1982, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. The following is from the Friends Of The Burlington Northern web site: Built by Pullman in 1913, it was eventually acquired by the GN and converted into their company service car number B4. The GN used it to train employees on safety rules and after the merger, BN continued to use it for the same reason until the late 70's when it was scrapped in favor of the "Technical Training" course at the college in Overland Park, KS.
Photo Date:  5/19/1982  Upload Date: 3/30/2014 11:46:38 AM
Location:  Aurora, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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Inbound Dinkey
Title:  Inbound Dinkey
Description:  On south leads of Union Station.
Photo Date:  4/16/1976  Upload Date: 12/25/2011 4:16:04 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories:  RollingStock
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BN #B9
Title:  BN #B9
Description:  BN streamlined heavyweight track geometry car #B9, ex-GN 10 seat buffet lounge-26 seat parlor observation #1083 TWIN CITIES (streamlined in April 1952 for assignment to the GOPHER/BADGER), exx-parlor #1083, exxx-coach #1083, exxxx-parlor #1083, nee-Pullman Plan #3416 28 seat parlor-1DR CORDELIA, Lot #4801, August 1924, originally assigned to B&O, rebuilt to #1083 in May 1938 for GN, sold to GN in June 1942; later to BN #80 (1st), stored in 2000's at Topeka, scrapped sometime after October 2007. Scanned with an Epson V550 from an original Kodachrome 35mm slide.
Photo Date:  7/25/1980  Upload Date: 2/7/2025 4:26:12 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, IL
Author:  M.J. Budo/Max Fedela Collection
Categories:  Passenger
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Track geometry car
Title:  Track geometry car
Description:  This car was working through Lenexa the day I was there. We see the observation end of the car, where the equipment operator works.
Photo Date:  2/19/1986  Upload Date: 11/10/2014 2:56:41 AM
Location:  Lenexa, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Station
Locomotives:  BN 2068(GP20)
Views:  1383   Comments: 2
Track geometry car
Title:  Track geometry car
Description:  The opposite end of the track geometry car passing through Lenexa
Photo Date:  2/19/1986  Upload Date: 11/10/2014 3:00:40 AM
Location:  Lenexa, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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BN B9 Track Geometry Car
Title:  BN B9 Track Geometry Car
Description:  BN B9 Track Geometry Car at Tennessee Yard
Photo Date:  1/1/1987  Upload Date: 1/26/2007 4:54:22 PM
Location:  Memphis, TN
Author:  Eric Fleet
Categories:  RollingStock
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BN B9
Title:  BN B9
Description:  Track geometry car laying over on old passenger main at yard office
Photo Date:  4/23/1987  Upload Date: 8/23/2012 9:28:52 PM
Location:  La Crosse, WI
Author:  Stephen Borleske
Categories:  Roster,Yard
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BN Geometry Car B9
Title:  BN Geometry Car B9
Description:  Taken in the early 1990s
Photo Date:  1/1/1992  Upload Date: 10/14/2020 9:55:26 PM
Location:  Galesburg, IL
Author:  Bob Jordan
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BN Geometry Car B9
Title:  BN Geometry Car B9
Description:  Taken in the early 1990s.
Photo Date:  1/1/1992  Upload Date: 10/14/2020 9:56:03 PM
Location:  Galesburg, IL
Author:  Bob Jordan
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BN B9
Title:  BN B9
Description:  (ex-BN 968084, exx-GN 1083 "Twin Cities", nee-Pullman "Cornelia") Mod. HW parlor FE observation car.
Photo Date:  10/24/2006  Upload Date: 11/5/2006 1:03:37 AM
Location:  Galesburg, IL
Author:  T. Lundeen
Categories:  RollingStock
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BN B-10
Title:  BN B-10
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/10/2007  Upload Date: 9/11/2007 3:55:01 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Dan Mackey
Categories:  RollingStock
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BN B-10
Title:  BN B-10
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/10/2007  Upload Date: 9/11/2007 3:55:01 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Dan Mackey
Categories:  RollingStock
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BN B-10 instrument room
Title:  BN B-10 instrument room
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/10/2007  Upload Date: 9/11/2007 3:55:02 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Dan Mackey
Categories:  RollingStock
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BN B-10 damaged load sensor
Title:  BN B-10 damaged load sensor
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/10/2007  Upload Date: 9/11/2007 3:54:58 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Dan Mackey
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  654   Comments: 2
BN B-10 interior view
Title:  BN B-10 interior view
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/10/2007  Upload Date: 9/11/2007 3:54:59 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Dan Mackey
Categories:  RollingStock
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BN B-10 Handbrake
Title:  BN B-10 Handbrake
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/10/2007  Upload Date: 9/11/2007 3:55:00 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Dan Mackey
Categories:  RollingStock
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BN B-10 interior view
Title:  BN B-10 interior view
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/10/2007  Upload Date: 9/11/2007 3:55:09 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Dan Mackey
Categories:  RollingStock
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BN B-10 roof view
Title:  BN B-10 roof view
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/10/2007  Upload Date: 9/11/2007 3:55:10 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Dan Mackey
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B-10 Dynanometer car.
Title:  B-10 Dynanometer car.
Description:  Dynanometer car being prepped for a truck ride from North Branch to the Iron Horse Central Railroad Museum near Chisago City, Minnesota.
Photo Date:  5/31/2008  Upload Date: 7/5/2008 4:37:15 PM
Location:  North Branch, MN
Author:  Matt Hagfors
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BN B-10
Title:  BN B-10
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/4/2012  Upload Date: 4/23/2023 3:56:51 PM
Location:  Chisago City, MN
Author:  Andrew Goblirsch
Categories:  Track
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BN B-10 + DSS&A 572
Title:  BN B-10 + DSS&A 572
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/4/2012  Upload Date: 1/6/2014 11:28:00 PM
Location:  Chisago City, MN
Author:  Andrew Goblirsch
Categories:  Track
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DSS&A 572
Title:  DSS&A 572
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/4/2012  Upload Date: 3/28/2023 11:17:43 PM
Location:  Chisago City, MN
Author:  Andrew Goblirsch
Categories:  Track
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SOO 206 on Display this Chilly Morn
Title:  SOO 206 on Display this Chilly Morn
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/6/2012  Upload Date: 11/25/2013 8:22:06 PM
Location:  Chisago City, MN
Author:  Andrew Goblirsch
Categories:  Track
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BN Instruction Car 12
Title:  BN Instruction Car 12
Description:  Taken during 1982 by an unknown photographer.
Photo Date:  1/1/1982  Upload Date: 12/22/2024 4:54:41 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Unknown
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BN Instruction Car 12
Title:  BN Instruction Car 12
Description:  Taken during 1982 by an unknown photographer.
Photo Date:  1/1/1982  Upload Date: 12/22/2024 4:55:31 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Unknown
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BN Instruction Car 12
Title:  BN Instruction Car 12
Description:  Taken during 1982 by an unknown photographer.
Photo Date:  1/1/1982  Upload Date: 12/22/2024 4:56:32 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Unknown
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BN 12
Title:  BN 12
Description:  Burlington Northern Railroad Instruction Car 12 at Memphis, Tennessee an April 6, 1984, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. According the the Friends Of The Burlington Northern (FOBN) web site, this car was built by Pullman in 1929, purchased by the GN in 1941, remodeled in 1954 and 1982, formerly GN 1085, then BN B-2 Instruction Car, rhen renamed Deschutes River, then renumbered BN 12. Inside were 26 revolving chairs, a crew room with bunks for two persons, a buffet with two tables seating eight, a podium and one toilet. A floor plan is shown at this web address: http://www.fobnr.org/bnaarlist/passenger/bnb12d.htm
Photo Date:  4/6/1984  Upload Date: 2/16/2014 5:06:35 PM
Location:  Memphis, TN
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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BN 17
Title:  BN 17
Description:  Heater Car - Ex GN 17
Photo Date:  9/6/1975  Upload Date: 9/6/2016 3:31:58 PM
Location:  Galesburg, IL
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Passenger
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BN Heating Car 18
Title:  BN Heating Car 18
Description:  Possibly Denver, CO.
Photo Date:  12/1/1975  Upload Date: 11/13/2018 6:07:10 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Bob Jordan
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BN 6-5-2 Sleeper A20 "Big Horn Pass"
Title:  BN 6-5-2 Sleeper A20 "Big Horn Pass"
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/16/1987  Upload Date: 5/7/2025 10:19:18 PM
Location:  Galesburg, IL
Author:  Railroad Avenue Ent.
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BN Generator-Dorm A23 "Stampede Pass"
Title:  BN Generator-Dorm A23 "Stampede Pass"
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/16/1987  Upload Date: 5/7/2025 10:21:03 PM
Location:  Galesburg, IL
Author:  Railroad Avenue Ent.
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Silver Veranda
Title:  Silver Veranda
Description:  #9331, "Silver Veranda," ex-BN #236, exx-CB&Q #236, blt 1956 for Denver Zephyr, on rear of n/b train
Photo Date:  12/4/1971  Upload Date: 6/18/2020 8:56:55 PM
Location:  Chicago Union Statio, IL
Author:  Gerard Putz
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
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#800275 SIERRA HOTEL
Title:  #800275 SIERRA HOTEL
Description:  Built in 1948 by Budd in Lot #9657-019 as CB&Q dome 26 seat buffet lounge-15 bunk dormitory-steward's room-hostess's room #251 SILVER LOUNGE, 1 of 3 such cars built in that Lot for the CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR. 2 cars were built for the WP in Lot #9657-021 (#831-#832), and 1 for the D&RGW in Lot #9657-020 (#1140). All 6 cars were delivered between October and November 1948. In April 1970, CB&Q #252 SILVER ROUNDUP burned while in storage in WP's Oakland Yard, and as a result, WP #831 SILVER CHALET was sold to BN as #252 (2nd). CB&Q #250-#251 and #252 (2nd) were sold to Amtrak as #9810-#9812, which were intended to be renumbered as BN #802-#804, but these numbers were not applied. The SILVER LOUNGE was retired in October 1981 and sold in 1987 to Charles Barenfanger-Doug Ebert. For more info, see Phil Dohmen's website: http://www.trainweb.org/web_lurker/WebLurkersDOMEmain/ 1 of 28 private cars that arrived in Seattle over several days for the 2013 AAPRCO convention train to Napa, CA. EXIF: 1:58 PM, f/3.1 @ 1/1000, ISO-100
Photo Date:  9/25/2013  Upload Date: 7/27/2014 5:10:39 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Ted Brumberg
Categories:  Passenger
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