PPCX 800344

Autoliner Corporation business car #100 HAPPY HOLLOW (ex-C&NW 4 double bedroom-4 compartment-2 drawing room [4DB-4C-2DR] sleeper IMPERIAL DRIVE) (P-S, Lot #6668, Plan #4069H, March 1942), built for assignment to the "Overland Pool", repainted from Armour Yellow to C&NW colors in August 1956, repainted to IC colors in November 1957, retired in January 1965 and subsequently sold in 1970 to Bill Kratville's Autoliner Corp., rebuilt to business car #100, later resold to Great Western Tours as #800344 YERBA BUENA, later resold to John Kirkwood/Rail Ventures (RVIX). Scanned with an Epson V550 from a duplicate Ektachrome 35mm slide. Photographer is unknown.

EXIF: 12:28 PM, f/4.9 @ 1/250, ISO-100

RE-UPLOAD due to missing file. EXIF: 5:54 PM, f/6.3 @ 1/160, ISO-400

RE-UPLOAD due to missing file. John Kirkwoods business car YERBA BUENA, built by Pullman-Standard in 1942 in Lot #6668 to Plan #4069H as C&NW 4 double bedroom-4 compartment-2 drawing room (4DB-4C-2DR) sleeper IMPERIAL DRIVE for the UP-SP-C&NW OVERLAND pool, withheld from Pullman lease in 1965 and sold in 1970 to William W. Kratvilles Autoliner Corporation in Omaha, rebuilt as business car #100 HAPPY HOLLOW, later resold to Great Western Tours, then resold to John Kirkwood/Rail Ventures as RVIX #800344 YERBA BUENA. Scanned with an Epson V550 from a Kodachrome 35mm slide. Date is approximate. Photographer is unknown.

AMTK 312 (ALC-42) at the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal at New Orleans, Louisiana. It was hard to tell if this was the 312 or the 317, but after looking at the small number between the engineer-side door & the cab nose. this is the 312. Sadly, just 23 days after this photo was taken, the locomotive would be involved in a grade-crossing accident with a car on the tracks at Mobile, Alabama on April 26, 2023, killing the driver of the car.

Yerba Buena. PPCX 800344

Pullman private car from Rail Ventures on a very late Amtrak train P030-02.

Nice surprise on the end of Amtrak! - PPCX 800344

Now I glad I didnt shrug off the Amtrak since they were late.

Finally I caught the unit as its been running the Builders for a few months.

Stacking up a stacker and other trains in the hole as the Empire Builder was running late, again.

Private Cars Flying Bye Thanks to theEngineer who slowed the train down so