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Owner: Amtrak
Type: Passenger Car
AAR Class: PA: Car equipped to handle passengers.
AAR Type: M500
Detail Info:   Misc Cars
AMTK Class:   Heritage
User Notes:   PACIFIC CASTLE, 10RM-6DB sleeper, ex-#2605, nee-UP #1407 [not applied], Budd, 1950, ret. 11-2002

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Amtrak #2438 PACIFIC CASTLE
Title:  Amtrak #2438 PACIFIC CASTLE
Description:  RE-UPLOAD due to missing file. Amtrak 10 roomette-6 double bedroom (10RM-6DB) sleeper #2438 PACIFIC CASTLE in the consist of westbound train #41, the BROADWAY LIMITED, in Harrisburg. Built by Budd in January 1950 in Lot #9660-039 to Pullman Plan #9522 as UP PACIFIC CASTLE, 1 of 50 PACIFIC-series cars built in that Lot, which was ordered in February 1948; cars were delivered between December 1949 and June 1950. Besides PACIFIC EMPIRE, which was wrecked in 1951, the other 49 cars were assigned #14xx-series numbers in 1969, the PACIFIC CASTLE was assigned #1407, which was not applied. 5 cars were sold to the Milwaukee Road in 1969, 1 car was retained by UP, and the other 43 cars were sold to Amtrak in 1971 as #2600-#2642, PACIFIC CASTLE as #2605. Besides 3 which were wrecked during Amtraks first decade, the remaining 40 cars were converted to head end power (HEP) in 3 batches, the 3rd group of 12 cars were converted in 1980-1981 (with 1 roomette combined with the porters room as an ADA room), including PACIFIC CASTLE, which was converted to HEP #2438 in September 1980. The car was retired in November 2002. Scanned with an Epson V550 from an original Kodachrome 35mm slide.
Photo Date:  6/10/1991  Upload Date: 12/25/2024 4:09:05 AM
Location:  Harrisburg, PA
Author:  Harold E. "Ed" Brouse/John C. Benson Collection
Categories:  Passenger
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Amtrak 2438
Title:  Amtrak 2438
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/9/2018  Upload Date: 7/4/2018 7:57:30 PM
Location:  Chehalis, WA
Author:  Joseph C.
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Passenger
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Locomotives Northwest Limited 301
Title:  Locomotives Northwest Limited 301
Description:  Anybody know the original identity of this car?
Photo Date:  7/9/2018  Upload Date: 7/4/2018 9:45:10 PM
Location:  Chehalis, WA
Author:  Joseph C.
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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