| BN modernized heavyweight business car #A9/#800328 MERAMEC RIVER, built by AC&F in 1912 as Frisco 62 seat coach #1086, rebuilt in 1943 to 40 seat diner #646, rebuilt in 1951 to business car ST. LOUIS (with 3 staterooms and a total of 15 seats in the dining room and lounge observation), later to #2, to BN via merger as #A9/#800328 MERAMEC RIVER, now on display at BNSF headquarters in Fort Worth as the JAMES J. HILL. Scanned with an Epson V550 from an original Kodachrome 35mm slide. |