Smithsonian's Camden & Amboy coach No. 3 jubiliantly arrived this morning at 10:50 a.m. aboard flatbed truck (with police escort) from Washington, D.C. It was safely encapsulated in a large wooden enclosure with a canvass roof. Thanks to mover Mike Venezia's skillful work, the C&A coach made it safely through the horrendeous downpours last night and early this morning. This afternoon saw unloading at the RMPA restoration shop using a rented crane. The work was completed by 7 p.m. this evening, with the coach safely tucked away inside the Restoration Shop. In preparation for the car's arrival, the "John Bull" replica was turned on the Museum turntable on Wednesday and is slated to join C&A no. 3 on track 2 in Rolling Stock Hall before next Friday's press conference. Incidentally, C&A coach no. 3 is the second oldest passenger car and the oldest eight-wheel passenger car in the U.S. The car will be on a three-year loan to RMPA. We are pleased to have this historic car (once part of the PRR Historic Collection at Northumberland) join the museum's world-class assemblage of locomotives and rolling stock.

K.R. Bell
RR Museum of PA

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I was just reading White's book on passenger cars. It mentions that 2 old C&A coaches where restored originally, and one disappeared. Does anybody know what happened to this other coach?

david.wilkins@bardstown.com

The whereabouts of the second C&A coach still to this day remains a mystery. Jack White told me that it vanished shortly after the B&O Fair of the Iron Horse in 1927. Perhaps the PRR Historical Record Cards (MG-286) on file at the PA State Archives in Harrisburg, Pa., might shed some light on its fate.

K.R. Bell
RR Museum of PA

> I was just reading White's book on passenger
> cars. It mentions that 2 old C&A coaches
> where restored originally, and one
> disappeared. Does anybody know what happened
> to this other coach?


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c-kbell@state.pa.us