| NYS&W 6 double bedroom (6DB) sleeper-17 seat buffet lounge #900 VIRGINIA BEACH, built by AC&F in November 1949 in Lot #3090 to Pullman Plan #9002 as ACL VIRGINIA BEACH (no car #), to SCL #6607. After the folding of Pullman's operating division in 1969, the VIRGINIA BEACH and numerous other sleepers were operated for SCL by Hamburg Industries. The VIRGINIA BEACH was sold to Amtrak in 1971 as #3227 (lounge seating reduced from 24 to 17), retired in 1976 and sold in 1977 to George Pins, then resold to Jack Bennet, to NYS&W #900, stored for a time on the Morris County Central, later resold to Alfred K. Nippert-Gator Rail Tours as GRTX #3193/#800317, then to the Louisiana Railroad Heritage Trust in Kenner, LA. Scanned with an Epson V550 from an original Kodachrome 35mm slide. |