Excellent picture to have approved as your first to RP!
Is this engine still around the Green Bay area? If so I may be taking the short drive up there this weekend.
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The passenger car is one of three midtrain bedroom-lounge car built for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's Silver Comet. The original names were in the "Mountain" series, for example Red Mountain, but "Beach" series names were switched from SAL's more famous Silver Meteor "Sun Lounges," which then acquired "Sun" series names like Sun Ray. The "Beach" series thus meshed the SAL cars with Atlantic Coast Line's similar series, which had names like Pass-A-Grill Beach. Most unusual for this ACF-built car, was the Budd-like square corrugations on the roof and in the letterboard area, used with the Pullman-Standard/ACF-style corrugations below the windows. SAL specified such customized details to these, as well as a fleet of PS-built 10-6 sleepers, to better match their appearance with an otherwise Budd-built fleet. Until an anti-trust suit broke the Pullman Company monopoly, Pullman would not operate, or staff, any sleeping cars built by Budd or ACF.
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