| Built in January 1950 by the Budd Company in Lot #9660-039 to Pullman Plan #9522, as UP 10 roomette-6 double bedroom (10RM-6DB) sleeper PACIFIC BEND, 1 of 50 such PACIFIC-series sleepers 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 BEND was assigned #1404, which was applied in August 1969. 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 BEND as #2603. Besides 3 which were wrecked during Amtrak's first decade, the remaining 40 cars were converted to head end power (HEP) in 3 batches, the 1st group of 13 cars were converted in 1977-1978, including PACIFIC BEND, which was converted to HEP #2903 in June 1978. Between 1997 and 2000, Amtrak converted 14 of these 40 cars to crew dormitory-lounges, PACIFIC BEND was converted to dormitory #2504 in January 1998. #2504 was retired in early 2007, and in 2008 was reactivated for Company Service as #10020. In 2010, the #10020 was temporarily renamed from PACIFIC BEND to PACIFIC COMMAND (2nd) for use by Amtrak Police at Seattle's King Street Station during the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and after the Games concluded, the name was changed back to PACIFIC BEND. Seen here at the station in Dallas, and note the PRR lightweight Budd-built sleeper to the right, which is most likely an INN-series 21 roomette (21RM) sleeper (Lot #9667-024, Pullman Plan #9513, 1949, #8241-series, all rebuilt to #15xx-series 70-or-76-seat commuter coaches in 1963). Scanned with an Epson V550 from a duplicate 35mm slide, brand is unknown. |