Classic Railroad Equipment of the Week! PV's Private Varnish(Ozark Mountain Rail Car and others)

Wanna buy an FL9? NH 2029 / Amtrak 484 is for sale (login/registration for link required): https://ozarkmountainrailcar.com/railEq ... temId=3297

Only $410k!

You can find some pictures of it in Amtrak service here: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locopi ... x?id=50572

Here’s a Pennsylvania PV, currently named PITSSBURGHER. Why it’s in legacy GN or BNSF paint is beyond me

URL
https://ozarkmountainrailcar.com/railEq ... temId=3635

Writeup on book of faces
Featured Listing Pennsylvania Railroad Business Car "Pittsburgher" - Built by the Pullman Company as a steel business car in 1914 for the Pennsylvania Railroad and numbered #7504. In 1929 the car was assigned to the PRR Assistant Vice President of motive power and named "New Jersey". In 1933 the car was assigned to the PRR Assistant Vice President of the Western Region and based in Pittsburgh, PA. It was in Pittsburgh where the car was renamed "The Pittsburgher" and in 1941 the name was shortened to just "Pittsburgher". In 1968 after the merger of the New York...

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For $1 Million, You Can Buy Your Own Private Train Car—and Attach It to Any Amtrak Route You Want

The private railroad carriage was once the epitome of luxury transportation in the U.S. “The Vanderbilts and Rockefellers, they all had their private railcar,” says David Hoffman, a director of the American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners (AAPRCO). “They would call the railroad and say, ‘Hey, can you pull me from here to there?’ ”

A similar, if less well-known, system operates today: You can buy a disused railcar starting from about $200,000, restore it, and have Amtrak tow you on any of the major American rail routes. “It’s kind of a hidden business,” says Hoffman, who operates Northern Sky Rail Charters from Milwaukee, Wisc. “You won’t believe how many times people say to me, ‘I didn’t know you could do this.’ ”

Amtrak is the only locomotive service you can use, and typically it will attach a car or two to a regular commercial service. “The basic fee is about a little over $4 a mile,” says Tony Marchiando, AAPRCO’s president. Storage is additional; Amtrak charges $2,000 to $3,000 a month.
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https://ozarkmountainrailcar.com/railEq ... temId=1840

METRA Gallery Car. $38,000

John_Perkowski wrote: ↑Sun Apr 30, 2023 10:05 am Here’s a Pennsylvania PV, currently named PITSSBURGHER. Why it’s in legacy GN or BNSF paint is beyond me

URL
https://ozarkmountainrailcar.com/railEq ... temId=3635

Writeup on book of faces
Featured Listing Pennsylvania Railroad Business Car "Pittsburgher" - Built by the Pullman Company as a steel business car in 1914 for the Pennsylvania Railroad and numbered #7504. In 1929 the car was assigned to the PRR Assistant Vice President of motive power and named "New Jersey". In 1933 the car was assigned to the PRR Assistant Vice President of the Western Region and based in Pittsburgh, PA. It was in Pittsburgh where the car was renamed "The Pittsburgher" and in 1941 the name was shortened to just "Pittsburgher". In 1968 after the merger of the New York...

Caveat Emptor!

The last time I checked, this car is displayed on a piece of panel track inside an auto dealership in Belleville, Illinois. It is located a distance away from an active railroad track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desk ... CJ4E6m_GE

Jeff Smith wrote:https://ozarkmountainrailcar.com/railEq ... temId=1840

METRA Gallery Car. $38,000

You got to wonder when it costs more to move the car than it does to buy it.

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You could buy about 200 of those for the cost of one new one!!

https://ozarkmountainrailcar.com/railEq ... temId=3676&

AT&SF Railway Caboose #999187

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This weeks car is ex ATSF business car 33, now called REDWOOD EMPIRE. It’s for sale at Ozark Mountain Railcar.

Santa Fe business car #33 was built in 1923 by Pullman Car and Manufacturing, one of essentially identical “30 series” cars, numbered 30-39, constructed for the railway between 1918 and 1928. These cars were originally assigned to top executives out of Chicago, perhaps on a rotating basis. With arrival of lightweight, streamlined replacements after WWII, 30 series units were sent all over the Santa Fe System, primarily to General and Assistant General Managers of the Grand Divisions. Many were modernized with formica interiors replacing the original golden oak. No. 33 never received this treatment; its last assignment was for the Assistant General Manager, Coast Lines, Los Angeles. Santa Fe retired the car in 1969, the first of the series to leave the roster. Post AT&SF owners of note were Atlantic Richfield; General Rail Corporation – which named the car TAMALPAIS and retrucked it in 1999; and Gibraltar House, which upgraded the machinery, paneling and the ceilings. Redwood Empire is equipped with a lounge, 4 bedrooms, a general toilet, dining room, crew room and a stainless steel pantry and kitchen.

Well, we're not exactly being weekly, but we still have great listings to show: https://ozarkmountainrailcar.com/railEq ... temId=3362#

A very affordable $68,000, located in New Jersey.

Union Pacific Dining Car #950


Built by American Car & Foundry for the Union Pacific Railroad as a dining/lounge car. Rebuilt for shortline service and has an all new kitchen. Some of the car details include: Good body & roof, A/C, heat, 60 seat dining room, NEW Manitowoc Ice Machine, NEW True Freezer, True Refrigerator, NEW True Bain- Marie Refrigerator, NEW 8 storage compartments, NEW gas grill, NEW Southbend 8 burner gas commercial stove. The car does have some issues with electrolysis but otherwise is a complete car.