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 Post subject: Re: Railroad cars in Jeopardy Yakima Washington
PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 3:58 pm 

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So what ended up happening to the three heavyweight Pullmans? I presume they're now being made into Toyotas, but I can't actually find any confirmation of that. Did any somehow manage to escape the torch?


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That is three of the 4 cars of the CofG Man O'War. We'd have the fourth but my wife put her foot down in 1994 when I was trying to buy it.


So what happened to the fourth? Does it still exist?


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 Post subject: Re: Railroad cars in Jeopardy Yakima Washington
PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 5:15 pm 
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Bartman-TN wrote:
That is three of the 4 cars of the CofG Man O'War.


Bobharbison wrote:
So what happened to the fourth? Does it still exist?


Of the four cars built by Budd for Central of Georgia's Man O'War, three are now located in Oak Ridge, TN, and the fourth is owned by CVSR:

Baggage-44 Seat Coach #391 Fort Mitchell to SOU #727 to Roanoke Chapter NRHS #727 to CVSR #727 (1994)

54 Seat Coach #664 Fort Oglethorpe to SOU #664 to Amtrak #5485 (1979) to Speno RR Ballast Cleaning (1981) to Harsco-Pandrol Jackson to Southern Appalachia RY Museum (SARX) #664 (1990)

54 Seat Coach #665 Fort McPherson to SOU #665 to Amtrak #5486 (1979) to Alaska RR #5220 (1981) to Denver Railcar (DRCX) #5220 (1989) to Kasten Railcar (KRSX) #5220 to Illinois Transit Assembly (ITAX) #5220 to SARX #665 (1999)

Club Lounge Observation #692 Fort Benning to Patrick Hall-Carowinds Amusement Park (Charlotte) to Melco Labs (MELX) #692 to private owner to Track 29 to Walden's Ridge RR Company (ETA and Hayneshopcat) (WRRX) #692 (2012)

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 Post subject: Re: Railroad cars in Jeopardy Yakima Washington
PostPosted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 9:44 pm 

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....a few more Yakima shots.


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 Post subject: Re: Railroad cars in Jeopardy Yakima Washington
PostPosted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 9:46 pm 

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A few ACL bag-dorm shots.


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