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Owner: Pennsylvania Railroad
Type: Passenger Car
AAR Class: PA: Car equipped to handle passengers.
AAR Type: M500
Detail Info:   Misc Cars
User Notes:   Coach; "Tubular Train"

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"PRR Gets 'Tubular' Train," Page 3, 1956
Title:  "PRR Gets 'Tubular' Train," Page 3, 1956
Description:  Here is page three of a three-page cover article entitled "PRR Gets 'Tubular' Train: New Equipment Joins Washington-New York Fleet." It was published originally in the July-August 1956 issue of "Pennsy" magazine, page 3. Lower Photo Caption: "The complete train, seven coaches and a power car (left), is a dramatic sweep of fluted steel 648 feet long. Train has 574 seats, will run behind standard locomotive." Prominent here is Pennsylvania Railroad "Tubular" passenger car #9601, built by Budd in 1956.
Photo Date:  7/1/1956  Upload Date: 4/23/2022 11:25:33 AM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  74   Comments: 0
PRR 9601, Tubular Train, 1962
Title:  PRR 9601, Tubular Train, 1962
Description:  Electrified. Here is an original photo that I took of a Pennsylvania Railroad train in Wilmington, Delaware, on 21 June 1962. Shown here is passenger car #9601, part of the PRR's experimental "Tubular Train." It has just arrived from New York City on its way to Washington, D.C.
Photo Date:  6/21/1962  Upload Date: 9/2/2016 12:56:11 AM
Location:  Wilmington, DE
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Passenger
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Views:  288   Comments: 1


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