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 Post subject: Parlor Car Bar
PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:57 am 

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Said to be in Wallingford, Connecticut. Who knows more about this one?

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 Post subject: Re: Parlor Car Bar
PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 11:20 pm 

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Location: CT
Well, I was told that it is originally Philadelphia and Reading by way of Belfast and Moosehead Lake. It's a neat car. attached to the building but doesn't look like it was damaged badly, most of the cars roof has another roof over it so that protects it nicely. All in all its in pretty decent shape.


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 Post subject: Re: Parlor Car Bar
PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 11:13 am 

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Location: Wall, NJ
Looks like this car has been discussed a few times over the years. A friend of mine sent me some pictures of the car as it sits today. The Yankee Silversmith Inn has been torn down leaving the car by itself. It has a for sale sign on it now. The pictures were as of 8 September 2008.

J.R. May
Wall, NJ


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 Post subject: Re: Parlor Car Bar
PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:34 pm 

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Look, the body is straight as an arrow!

Interesting, there is an article in the Flimsies about it very recently. Some good discussion, but it ends with the old time railroader saying it will never move again and advocating its scrapping. More of that cultural negativity I guess, and I would like a second opinion. Who will save it? Naugatuck? Danbury? Downeast Scenic? Strasburg?

http://www.myrecordjournal.com/site/tab1.cfm?newsid=20119790&BRD=2755&PAG=461&dept_id=592709&rfi=6

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 Post subject: Re: Parlor Car Bar
PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:02 pm 

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That's Dave Peters sitting on the car steps. He's a retired NH-PC-AMTK air brake man, and quite a preservationist in his own right (smaller artifacts and such).

No, RMNE-NAUG will not be going after this one-- it's an RDG car (no real connection to New England) and we simply have way too much else on our plate now.

Howard P.

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 Post subject: Re: Parlor Car Bar
PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:35 pm 

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hamburg is the place for this gal, she's in better shape than the wooden P&R stock in PA. Well except for one or two. Rob

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 Post subject: Re: Parlor Car Bar
PostPosted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:41 pm 

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Call Mike Venezia and tell him to get the trucks warmed up!!

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 Post subject: Re: Parlor Car Bar
PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 2:57 am 

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Location: Philadelphia Pa
Wasn't this on of the 'original' passgner cars on the Black River & Western?


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 Post subject: Re: Parlor Car Bar
PostPosted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 9:42 am 

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Yes, that was one of the original Black River cars. I believe it went up to CT in the late '60s or maybe early '70s.


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