Pardon my inexperience with this, I usually have a camera at the ready, but, I was in Poughkeepsie last week when the southbound passenger train went through in the evening and I noticed the observation car looked to be an older restored unit, similar to a Zephyr or NYC observation? Definitely an older silver paint scheme instead of the blue-sided Amtrak passenger cars. Any idea what unit it was/is? The Babbling Brook possibly?
What you say was most likely one of the former Budd built stainless steel sided observation cars that were built for the railroads in the 1940s and 1950s which there are several still around in private ownership. One of them is owned by the railroad out of Arkville, NY and used on their dinner train. I rode in that car in 2002 when it was operated by the Arcadian Railroad that lasted one operating year from Portland, Maine to just outside of Montreal, Quebec, Canada in September of that year. I have seen others over the years while riding Amtrak either on the rear of the train I was riding in or passing them while on the train.
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