The Great Smoky Mountain RR is announcing on Facebook that they have just acquired a new "First Class passenger rail car" for their operations:

https://www.facebook.com/GreatSmokyMoun ... =3&theater

The photo shows it is obviously a former CSX business train car, though we can't discern which one yet:



So what's the story here? Is CSX getting rid of more cars than this? Was this acquired from CSX as a purchase?

Pan Am Railroad just acquired a sleeping car "Mississippi" from CSX - so there has been at least one other recent sale. It will be numbered ST-103 in the PAR/Springfield Terminal business train.

The first (maybe only) dead match for this car is CSX 994012 "Michigan," built in 1951 by Budd for the Pennsylvania Railroad as a parlor car, numbered PRR 7138. Transferred to Penn Central in 1968 and renumbered PC 7138. In 1980, it was converted to a meeting room/board room car and renumbered CR 12, then went to CSX in the CR split-up.


http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/rsPict ... x?id=56899

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=4711258

Built in 1923 by Pullman as a tourist car. Acquired by the Southern Railway and converted to a couch in 1954 and numbered SOU 1041. Acquired by Conrail in 1983 and renumber CR 24. Converted to an eight-bedroom sleeper in 1984 and renumbered CR 8. went to CSXT.

http://www.hebners.net/CR/crOCS.html

Short answer? Yes. Or at least they were.

We, (F&N) as an interchange partner, received a listing of business cars available. We had just moved our SPVs so we were out of passenger car funds at the time.

Damn! How big was their living room?

Thanks for posting Sandy. Those E-8's and -9's were the best looking diesels ever! IMHO of course. Ned

As posted just now in the Surviving Pullman thread, this car started out as the Penvir, a Plan #2412F 16 section sleeper built by Pullman in April 1917 in Lot #4484, 1 of 40 such sleepers built in that Lot, and 1 of 6 from that Lot assigned to the SP. Rebuilt in November 1932 to the Plan #4027 10 section-restaurant Windsor Castle, 1 of 12 such rebuilds, and 1 of 6 such rebuilds (with Windsor-series names) for service on the Erie. Plan later had suffixes applied, specifically C, E, and G. Sold to the Southern at the Pullman divestiture as their #2458, and like several other sleepers of various types, later rebuilt by the SOU at their various shops to a chair, specifically in 1954 as #1041. Sold by the new NS in 1983 to Conrail, initially as #24, before being rebuilt the following year to an executive sleeper with 8 bedrooms as #8/#800360, later going to CSX in 1999 as their #994008 Mississippi.

Sources:

1. "The Complete Roster of Heavyweight Pullman Cars" by Robert J. Wayner (Wayner Publications, 1985)

2. "Passenger Car Catalog: Pullman Operated Equipment, 1912-1949" by William W. Kratville (Kratville Publications, 1968)

3. Tom Madden's Pullman Project CCR database: http://pullmanproject.com/Database.htm

I'd guess at least 80 ft ;-)