| Bill Brommer's former CB&Q TWIN CITIES ZEPHYR 24 seat dome-54 seat chair #4729 (Budd, Lot #9646-015, 1947), to BN #5484 [which was applied], sold in 1971 to Amtrak as #9544, retired in December 1983 and sold in March 1984 to Espirit de Corps Sportswear (San Francisco), donated that December to Project 2472, resold in 1987 to Bill Brommer as WKMR #800269, planned to be renamed SILVER SADDLE II, which may or may not have been applied, resold in 1994 to BKSX #9544/Montana Rockies Daylight, resold in October 1998 to Dr. Louis Steplock (one of the partners in BKSX) as Wyoming & Pacific (WPRX) #9544, refurbished at Lon Orlenko's Monad Railway Equipment (La Mirada, CA), leased in November 1998 to American Orient Express/Montana Rockies Rail Tours (MRRT)/American Spirit, resold in January 2001 to Rail Quest America (RQAX) (new operators of MRRT) as the #9544, named CITY OF LIVINGSTON in June 2002, resold in December 2004 along with the other RQAX cars to Philip Sheridan's IFE Leasing as MRLX #9544 SILVER SCENE. Scanned with an Epson V550 from a Kodachrome 35mm slide. Exact date is approximate. |