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What is the oldest piece of rolling stock in service with Amtrak?
Dave
PS - Did I ever tell you guys about the time I was touring Australia by rail and rabies-crazed Aborigine tribesmen attacked our train as it hurtled across the parched, hostile Outback? There I stood on the roof of The Ghan's diner, AK-47's blazing from both my hands, a machete in my belt, my shirt torn wide open, and a bandana 'round my head to keep the blood from tricklin' down from where a flaming spear had grazed my left ear. Then they got the engineer, and I had to swing down from the roof into the sidewindow of the cab and drive the train myself, shootin my guns this way and that all the while. They was throwin' themselves onto the train like those spiders jumpin' at people in "Eight Legged Freaks", even though we must've been doing 80 or 90 mph. They even burned the 200 foot trestle over Dundee Creek up ahead to try and stop us, but I pushed the throttle to notch 8 and jumped the whole consist from one side of the dry creek bed to the other. That's how darn fast we was going! In the end we went back in a chopper and sprayed anti-rabies aerosol over the tribesmen and they came back to their senses and said they were sorry. I got a medal from Olivia Newton-John. That trip was really something, I'll tell you.
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Gilbert B Norman Member # 1541
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I believe that honor goes to a Heritage Diner that can trace its lineage to a Budd built Diner-Grill delivered to the NYC during 1948. NYC Road numbers were 450-467 (Source: Wayner; Car Names Numbers and consists).
This car was in consist of a Feb 02 trip I made aboard #91, Silver Star.
Possibly, there is a Baggage that predates this Diner of which I do not have knowledge.
UncleBuck44 Member # 2049
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quote:Originally posted by dnsommer: PS - Did I ever tell you guys about the time I was touring Australia by rail and rabies-crazed Aborigine tribesmen attacked our train as it hurtled across the parched, hostile Outback? There I stood on the roof of The Ghan's diner, AK-47's blazing from both my hands, a machete in my belt, my shirt torn wide open, and a bandana 'round my head to keep the blood from tricklin' down from where a flaming spear had grazed my left ear. Then they got the engineer, and I had to swing down from the roof into the sidewindow of the cab and drive the train myself, shootin my guns this way and that all the while. They was throwin' themselves onto the train like those spiders jumpin' at people in "Eight Legged Freaks", even though we must've been doing 80 or 90 mph. They even burned the 200 foot trestle over Dundee Creek up ahead to try and stop us, but I pushed the throttle to notch 8 and jumped the whole consist from one side of the dry creek bed to the other. That's how darn fast we was going! In the end we went back in a chopper and sprayed anti-rabies aerosol over the tribesmen and they came back to their senses and said they were sorry. I got a medal from Olivia Newton-John. That trip was really something, I'll tell you.
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dnsommer Member # 2825
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Thank you for the answer, Mr. Norman!
Unless anyone disagrees, I will use your info to complete my post regarding the answers to Amtrak AmTrivia Quiz #3.
I'm sure info about the age of Amtrak's rolling stock is documented somewhere on the web, I'm surprised I couldn't find it myself with Google.
Here's a trivia question: When did "The Train Of Tomorrow" finally reach its destination? (Meaning, when was it retired?)
Dave
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espeefoamer Member # 2815
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When the equipment was retired from Train of Tomorrow service,it was bought by the Union Pacific.they used it between Portland and Seattle.It was finally retired in the late 60's.
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pismobum Member # 2628
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Not quite "late" 60's
Sky View (diner) retired 2/61 - scrap 1964
Dream Cloud (sleeper) - scrapped 1964
Star Dust (coach) retired 11/64 - scrap 1965
Moon Glow (obs) retired 11/64 - owned by Ogden Union Station Museum
pismobum Member # 2628
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(Courtesy El Simon)
The SW-1's are ex NYC built between 42 and 49.
Hard to tell how old some of the work equipment is (cranes, etc) but probably older.
Company equipment "passenger style" stuff would be display cars 10090, 10091. One may possibly be later model KCS, but one for sure is pre-war Burlington 1940 built.
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