A private railroad car, private railway coach, private car, or private varnish is a railroad passenger car either originally built or later converted for...
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A passenger railroad car or passenger car (American English), also called a passenger carriage, passenger coach (British English and International Union...
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Private car may refer to: A class of small motor vehicle (e.g. for car registration, driving licence) Private railroad car This disambiguation page lists...
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Ferdinand Magellan (also known as U.S. Car. No. 1) is a former Pullman Company private car that served as Presidential Rail Car, U.S. Number 1 from 1943 until...
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dome cars were manufactured by the Budd Company, Pullman Standard and American Car & Foundry. Southern Pacific Railroad built its own dome cars in its...
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private railroad car. It was built in 1927, and was previously used by the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad as Car No. 50. DeJoria bought the train car...
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Roald Amundsen (railcar) (category Private railroad cars)
"National Register Information System – Roald Amundsen Pullman Private Railroad Car (#09000582)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park...
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also known as Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Business Car No. 101, is the oldest operable passenger car in the United States allowed to run on tracks...
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carriers Multiple unit Observation car Outfit Car or a Camp Car Pacer (train) Passenger car (rail) Pendolino Private railroad car Rail ambulance Railcar Railgrinder...
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Georgia 300 (category Private railroad cars)
The Georgia 300 is a privately owned railroad car owned by John H. "Jack" Heard of Florida. It has been used by several recent presidents for various campaign...
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An observation car/carriage/coach (in US English, often abbreviated to simply observation or obs) is a type of railroad passenger car, generally operated...
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appearances were made from the open platform of an observation car or a private railroad car. The definition of the term derives from the practice of a small...
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may be used alongside nearly all modes of public transportation, private railroad cars are rare (e.g. royal train), although heritage railways are not...
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Car 553 is a privately owned railroad passenger car. It operated exclusively on Metra's Union Pacific North Line in Northeastern Illinois, and was the...
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private accommodations available on board a sleeping car or private railroad car. An example, named as such, was a Midland Railway "Drawing Room Car"...
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spring of 1839, the Cumberland Valley Railroad pioneered sleeping car service in the United States with a car named "Chambersburg", between Chambersburg...
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A number of presidents have traveled by rail. A private railroad car was the equivalent of a private jet today, with the first executive coach built exclusively...
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The Harding Railroad Car is a historically significant Pullman railroad passenger car located at Pioneer Park (aka Alaskaland) in Fairbanks, Alaska. Also...
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Compiègne Wagon (category Private railroad cars)
This car had also been part of Foch's private train during the 1918 signing. The opening ceremony took place on 11 November 1950 and the car was renumbered...
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A dining car (American English) or a restaurant car (English), also a diner, is a railroad passenger car that serves meals in the manner of a full-service...
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The Superb (category Private railroad cars)
Warren G. Harding's personal Pullman railroad car in a cross-country tour in 1923. After Harding's death, the car returned his body from San Francisco...
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administers in its entirety are state-assessed properties and the Private Railroad Car Tax; the Board acts only in an appellate role in collecting the Alcoholic...
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Moosic. The 2006 Annual Convention of the American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners (AAPRCO) took place in Scranton on DL at the Steamtown National...
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the north. McNally also built a private rail spur from Altadena Junction to his property to store his private railroad car. The grounds were lavishly landscaped...
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Amtrak (redirect from National Railroad Passenger Corporation)
Amtrak would lease around 1,200 of the best passenger cars from the 3,000 that the private railroads owned. All were air-conditioned, and 90% were easy-to-maintain...
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South Central Florida Express (redirect from South Central Florida Railroad)
miles (275 km) of track, the SCXF is the largest private agricultural railroad in the U.S. The railroad began operation in 1994 on tracks previously owned...
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Murder in the Private Car is a 1934 American pre-Code mystery romance film starring Mary Carlisle, Charles Ruggles and Una Merkel. Directed by Harry Beaumont...
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freight shipments along a well integrated network of standard gauge private freight railroads that also extend into Canada and Mexico. The United States has...
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A refrigerator car (or "reefer") is a refrigerated boxcar (U.S.), a piece of railroad rolling stock designed to carry perishable freight at specific temperatures...
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American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania Westmoreland (railcar), the private railroad car of Henry Clay Frick Westmorland (ship), an 18th-century British privateer...
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