| NP "LOUNGE IN THE SKY" 4 double bedroom-4 roomette-2 single bedroom (4DB-4RM-2SB) sleeper buffet dome #378 (Budd, Lot #9669-141, Plan #9535/#9535A, 1954, NORTH COAST LIMITED), modified in 1967 from dome sleeper #312, by removing 2 of the 4 single bedrooms under the dome to add a buffet station and installing tables in the dome. To BN, intended as #1453, which was not applied, to Amtrak in 1971 as #9223, retired in the early 1980's and stored until sold in 1993 to Dirk Lenthe, later resold to Lon Orlenko-Monad Railway Equipment, then resold again to Wade Pellizzer as the THEODORE D. JUDAH, work began to bring the car up to current PC2 specs for use, assigned #800601, car was once again sold in 2012, this time to Iowa Pacific as SLRG #312, received IC colors in 2014 and renamed NORTH COAST. Scanned with an Epson V550 from an original Ektachrome 35mm slide. |