It is no secret that I am one of the elder Members active at this site, I was 26 years of age when RFK was assassinated and was at that time serving in Viet Nam with the Air Force. Considering LBJ's abdication (which incidentally I was on record with my Mother and Father in a letter that was in their hands prior to the event that in my opinion such was going to happen - I noted too many parallels with Harry Truman during 1952), and the assassination of two prominent leaders (agree with their views matters not; few could dispute that MLK and RFK were prominent), made many of us wonder what was going on "back in the world'. I even knew some guys who said 'hey man, I'm extendin' it's safer over here".
Now with that having been said, the You Tube video is obviously professionally produced. Even if Penn Central had been in place since that February and had liveried the #120 into "Puke Green" adorned with "worms in love", the PRR institutions that made such a special move "go off' had not yet been dismantled. One must wonder if Amtrak has the "institutions" in place to handle anything similar to the RFK train.
We should note that the #120 was first acquired from railroad ownership by a gentleman named George Pins. Under his ownership, it was restored to its proper livery, but Mr. Levin has "taken the car to new heights".
The Private Car, or "PV", community owe both gentlemen "a world of gratitude".
