A cross post from the Webmaster on TO's -

Thought it was worth a heads up:


http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/clt/4556725592.html

Four former Southern Pacific Railroad coaches for sale. These are real railroad cars that were built for the Southern Pacific "Shasta Daylight" train. Two were built in 1949 and two were built in 1954. Prices vary from $15,000.00 to $23,000.00. Cars can move by rail. Great restoration projects. Use for storage, model railroad room, vacation cabin, or restore and run on the railroad.

/Mitch

These cars are also currently listed on Ozark Mountain Railcar: http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/detail.asp?id=1513&n=Southern-Pacific-quotShastaquot-Coaches

Three of these Shasta Daylight chairs were formerly owned by the Sierra Western RR Co., and used both in the consist of the 1984 World's Fair Daylight and on Eureka Southern's North Coast Daylight excursions over the NWP.

SP Class 83-C-5 #2355 (P-S, 1954, Lot #6940, Plan #7571B, 48 seat chair) sold in 1973 to Amtrak #4842 sold in 1982 to SW #542 and named Sonoma, later stored in Scotia, CA, acquired in 2011 by Jon Clark.

SP Class 83-C-5 #2358 (P-S, 1954, Lot #6940, Plan #7571B, 48 seat chair) sold in 1973 to Amtrak #4844 sold in 1983 to SW #544 and named Mendocino, later stored in Scotia, CA, acquired in 2011 by Jon Clark.

SP Class 83-C-1 #2392 (P-S, 1949, Lot #6805, Plan #7571, 48 seat chair) sold in 1973 to Amtrak #7510 sold in 1977 to SW #510 and named Tuolumne, later stored in Healdsburg, CA, acquired in 2011 by Jon Clark.

The fourth chair was retained by SP:

SP Class 83-C-1 #2396 (P-S, 1949, Lot #6805, Plan #7571, 48 seat chair), renumbered in 1976 to #222, later to instruction car #219, sold (when??) to CSRM, acquired in 2011 by Jon Clark.

Jon Clark also acquired two additional Shasta Daylight chairs from the former Sierra Western, which are not for sale:

SP Class 83-C-5 #2361 (P-S, 1954, Lot #6940, Plan #7571B, 48 seat chair) sold in 1973 to Amtrak #4846 sold in 1983 to SW #546 and named Humboldt, later stored in Scotia, CA, acquired in 2011 by Jon Clark.

SP Class 83-C-1 #2395 (P-S, 1949, Lot #6805, Plan #7571A, 48 seat chair, later 52 seats) sold in 1973 to Amtrak #7511 sold in 1976 to Rail Service Industries (Mira Loma, CA), later to SW #511 and named Stanislaus, later stored in Willits, CA, acquired in 2008 by Jon Clark.

Also for sale on Ozark Mountain Railcar is SW #156: http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/detail.asp?id=1512&n=Frisco-Dining-Car--Alexander-Doniphan-NEW

SLSF Texas Special 36 seat diner #650 Alexander Doniphan (P-S, 1948, Lot #6768, Plan #7540) sold in 1966 to GN #1156 Lake Pepin to BN, sold (when??) to SW #156, later stored in Asti, CA, acquired (when??) by Jon Clark.

These cars, and others belonging to Sierra Western, were discussed in this thread: http://www.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2842

Sources:

1. "Streamliner Cars Volume One: Pullman Standard" by W. David Randall (RPC Publications, 1981)

2. Mike Palmieri's Amtrak rosters

3. "Amtrak by the Numbers" by David C. Warner and Elbert Simon (White River Productions, 2011)

4. David Coscia's list of extant SP rolling stock: http://webpages.charter.net/altalair/sp_equipment.html

These cars are also listed for sale on Railswap.org