GLC gets old PRR baggage car
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GLC gets old PRR baggage car
A friend of mine from NJ just posted a picture on Facebook of an old PRR baggage car starting it was destined for the GLC. What might this car be used for?
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Re: GLC gets old PRR baggage car
Hauling old bags?
Does anyone have any detail on where the Baggage car is coming form or any ID/history of the car?
Thanks.
Does anyone have any detail on where the Baggage car is coming form or any ID/history of the car?
Thanks.
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Re: GLC gets old PRR baggage car
I can tell you that it is: RPCX 9312 and that it is an B-60B baggage car.
Ah yes SRI, I forget that they are up there.
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Not SRI's.
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Re: GLC gets old PRR baggage car
They may be getting it ready for the new Howell-Ann Arbor commuter service.
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No need for a baggage car on those runs.gonzojoe wrote:They may be getting it ready for the new Howell-Ann Arbor commuter service.
Although maybe if they need a HEP car they can rebuild it
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HEP is a real possibility. Bar car anyone?YpsiAmtrakBoy wrote:No need for a baggage car on those runs.gonzojoe wrote:They may be getting it ready for the new Howell-Ann Arbor commuter service.
Although maybe if they need a HEP car they can rebuild it
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I am gonna go with a Bar car...
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HEP in a PRR B60B. Now I have heard of everything.Standard Railfan wrote:HEP is a real possibility. Bar car anyone?YpsiAmtrakBoy wrote:No need for a baggage car on those runs.gonzojoe wrote:They may be getting it ready for the new Howell-Ann Arbor commuter service.
Although maybe if they need a HEP car they can rebuild it
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IIRC the Lake Superior Transportation Museum in Duluth has a HEP unit installed in a baggage car. I cannot recall the cars linage, either Great Northern or Northern Pacific. The car doubles as a snack bar/ souvenir stand.
That leads to some speculation , if GLC has plans for excursion service, maybe a casino run between SE Michigan and Traverse City (the track is right behind the casino) why not a power car?
That leads to some speculation , if GLC has plans for excursion service, maybe a casino run between SE Michigan and Traverse City (the track is right behind the casino) why not a power car?
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Re: GLC gets old PRR baggage car
Anyone have a picture of this car or location they can post?
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It was sitting on the shop track at the shops the other day
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Re: GLC gets old PRR baggage car
Are there still enough bi-levels still in Cadillac to start an excursion train?
Assume they would need a power car for those? It does sound like an interesting concept though. Petosky also has a casino. So here goes a casino cruise from Mt. Pleasant to Petosky and Traverse City. I like it!!! Remember when Michigan Northern ran those snowmobile trains from Comstock Park to Cadillac? I was on the first one and they were 6 hours late as they had hit an automobile on the way out of Cadillac and got to Comstock Park in a snow storm at about 5:30pm. The Alco won that one.
Assume they would need a power car for those? It does sound like an interesting concept though. Petosky also has a casino. So here goes a casino cruise from Mt. Pleasant to Petosky and Traverse City. I like it!!! Remember when Michigan Northern ran those snowmobile trains from Comstock Park to Cadillac? I was on the first one and they were 6 hours late as they had hit an automobile on the way out of Cadillac and got to Comstock Park in a snow storm at about 5:30pm. The Alco won that one.
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Super Chief, lots of bi-levels at North Yard in Cadillac still,Super Chief wrote:Are there still enough bi-levels still in Cadillac to start an excursion train?
Assume they would need a power car for those? It does sound like an interesting concept though. Petosky also has a casino. So here goes a casino cruise from Mt. Pleasant to Petosky and Traverse City. I like it!!! Remember when Michigan Northern ran those snowmobile trains from Comstock Park to Cadillac? I was on the first one and they were 6 hours late as they had hit an automobile on the way out of Cadillac and got to Comstock Park in a snow storm at about 5:30pm. The Alco won that one.
drop me a email please, would like to ask you couple questions about the snowtrains MIGN ran.
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The car on the shop track has been there for a month now. I looked up pictures of the type of baggage supposedly coming and it dont match that car. I havent checked numbers though.
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Hmm okay now I am interested in why all these rpcx cars are showing up.
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Re: GLC gets old PRR baggage car
GLC is putting themselves out there as car rebuilders to drum up biz. They have a PRR blunt end inside, the baggage on the shop track and now another PRR car coming. The RPCX reporting marks are the easiest way to move a passenger car short of showing a railroad owning it.
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Re: GLC gets old PRR baggage car
I've always wanted to gather together restored PRR passenger equipment and run a solid PRR excursion train behind Bennett Levin's twin PRR E8s. (Much the same as the group from Minnesota runs solid MILW trains behind #261). Maybe GLC is unknowing making my dreams a reality!
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