To The Game: A PRR Tradition

mfroio · **Posted:** Fri Dec 11, 2015 8:30 am

Here is latest post celebrating a PRR tradition: The Army Navy game specials http://michaelfroio.com/blog/tothegame

Howard P. · **Posted:** Fri Dec 11, 2015 12:59 pm

Part of this Tradition was the wonderful parade of passenger cars PRR pulled out for all the extra trains. In the 1960s, there was quite a variety of heavyweight Pullman parlor cars, sleepers-in-day-service, cars from other roads and from the Pullman pool. Plenty of photos of these trains and cars are now on the web, with a little looking. Passenger car fans would make sure to get a good location where the trains were slowly moving into the Stadium yard, and they had plenty of Kodachrome in the camera bag!

Howard P.

philip.marshall · **Posted:** Fri Dec 11, 2015 1:50 pm

Howard P. wrote:

Part of this Tradition was the wonderful parade of passenger cars PRR pulled out for all the extra trains. In the 1960s, there was quite a variety of heavyweight Pullman parlor cars, sleepers-in-day-service, cars from other roads and from the Pullman pool. Plenty of photos of these trains and cars are now on the web, with a little looking. Passenger car fans would make sure to get a good location where the trains were slowly moving into the Stadium yard, and they had plenty of Kodachrome in the camera bag!

Howard P.

As an example, here is a Bob Coolidge photo of LIRR heavyweight parlor car 2046 'Onteora' and another unidentified LIRR heavyweight in a PRR football extra consist in 1964:

http://www.bcoolidge.com/ANG%20Pix/ANG-LIRR-Heavyweight-Parlors_11_28_64.jpg

-Philip Marshall