Everyone: The recent pictures of #9800 have re-activated this topic about this single former Metroliner MU
Conference Car - I remembered this older available roster of the Metroliner MU car fleet:
https://on-track-on-line.com/amtkrinf-metrocon.shtml
#9800 - Was Metroliner Snack Bar/Coach #863 - Rebuilt 1979 - Converted to #9800 Conference Car 1990.
Cab controls removed after 2005.
I remember that the 1970s speed limit of the Metroliner MU cars in service was no more than 125 mph...
They were heavy MU cars averaging 175,000 pounds each and could ride somewhat rough at high speeds...
TD: When the Metroliner cars ran as MU cars one pan was used for each pair which were actually single
units and not "married" to one another - The Metroliner MU trainsets were most commonly ran as either
a 4 or 6 car train NYP (and sometimes NHV) to WAS...In the early 1980s these cars were "bumped" or in
this case " demoted" to the Harrisburg Line...These trains ran with as few as two cars HAR-PHL - and at
times trains with odd car amounts could be seen in service at times...Six car MU sets were ran on trains
such as the "Valley Forge" NYP-HAR for the then re-branded "Capitoliner" car fleet...MACTRAXX
EXPRESS TRAIN TO NEW YORK PENN STATION-NO JAMAICA ON THIS TRAIN-PLEASE STAND CLEAR OF THE CLOSING TRAIN DOORS