Old UP Diner

I spotted this old UP diner in North Yard, SLC the morning of 2/9/2009.

www.utahtransit.us/updiner1.htm

IIRC that car has been for sale on DF Barnhart's website several times in the past decade.

Don Strack's utahrails.net has good info on her.

It's a 3600 class HW diner, similar to UP 3669 at Travel Town. She's of a later lot (1928 build date) than the 3669 car. She got her first air conditioning in 1932. After WWII, it was taken in hand by the Omaha Shops and given a betterment treatment (streamline roof, modern safety glass windows, modern A/C). She was reclassified a buffet-lounge in 1964, and retired from the roster in 1970 (same year much of the fleet was dispersed). She originally went to a hotel in Antonito CO, but had been re-sold and relocated to Nampa ID by late 2008.

She's been bought by the Orange Empire RR Museum, and is now in Perris, CA. What's important as a matter of history is that she has much original equipment still aboard, and was not converted to MOW service at the end of UP passenger service.