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| Author: | NS 3322 [ Wed Jan 23, 2019 2:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | South Shore Line Diner #303 "Duneland" |
Does anyone know what happened to the diner the South Shore Line owned in the 80's and 90's named "Duneland"? The most recent photo I could find was from 1998, but the trail goes cold after that. The car is of CN and VIA heritage.  Photo by Tomas E. Hoffman; J.M. LaBoda Scan Collection |
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| Author: | lmckay175 [ Wed Jan 23, 2019 2:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: South Shore Line Diner #303 "Duneland" |
I was never aware of this car. Was it used for MOW service? |
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| Author: | NS 3322 [ Wed Jan 23, 2019 3:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: South Shore Line Diner #303 "Duneland" |
lmckay175 wrote: I was never aware of this car. Was it used for MOW service? Apparently the owners of the railroad at the time were interested in starting a dinner train. The South Shore also had a business car, "Hiram," which is now at Gateway Rail Services in Madison, Illinois. 1987 (Photo by Tom Golden):  2014: |
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| Author: | Robert J [ Thu Jan 24, 2019 9:10 am ] |
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| Author: | NS 3322 [ Thu Jan 24, 2019 9:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: South Shore Line Diner #303 "Duneland" |
Robert J wrote: NS 3322 wrote: The South Shore also had a business car, "Hiram," which is now at Gateway Rail Services in Madison, Illinois. After Hiram was used on the South Shore it went to the Toledo, Peoria & Western where it acquired the two tone gray paint it now wears. I guess the TP&W sold it to Gateway Rail Services? I found the information on the Hiram on another thread in this forum. The user (the late Dean Levin) who posted the information said it was being stored at Gateway. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=30187&p=213012&hilit=Dean+Levin#p213012 |
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| Author: | ctjacks [ Thu Jan 24, 2019 7:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: South Shore Line Diner #303 "Duneland" |
The porch car pictured above just popped up for sale on the Ozark web site. |
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| Author: | NS 3322 [ Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: South Shore Line Diner #303 "Duneland" |
ctjacks wrote: The porch car pictured above just popped up for sale on the Ozark web site. Haha, how ironic. |
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| Author: | eze240 [ Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: South Shore Line Diner #303 "Duneland" |
If you're talking about the Hiram, it's been on Ozark for some time now....at least 3+ years... They recently lowered the asking price... |
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| Author: | ctjacks [ Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: South Shore Line Diner #303 "Duneland" |
Back to the diner - isn't that the diner that has been on the Great Lakes Central RR in recent years? What may be confusing is this: some of the hardware - such as the end door with the number - in the GLC car was swapped with another car, as I recall. So the numbers may not match. I think the correct number of the GLC car is CN 1342. The only others like this I can think of that are still out there are: Montana Rail Link has a car like this in camp/MoW service, and Iowa Pacific has at least one of these cars deteriorating somewhere. Long ago Algoma Central and Ontario Northland had cars from these series, but I think they have both since been cut up. These were nice cars, but had the same issue as all Canadian carbon steel cars - they rusted, especially below the windows, which was a bad combination with the Canadian environment. If you see around Ray Kammer he would know - as far as I know he was involved with all this equipment over the years. Chris. |
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| Author: | NS 3322 [ Fri Jan 25, 2019 12:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: South Shore Line Diner #303 "Duneland" |
ctjacks wrote: Back to the diner - isn't that the diner that has been on the Great Lakes Central RR in recent years? What may be confusing is this: some of the hardware - such as the end door with the number - in the GLC car was swapped with another car, as I recall. So the numbers may not match. I think the correct number of the GLC car is CN 1342. I was wondering if it was the GLC diner. But I cannot find anything on this car between VIA and it being purchased by GLC. 
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