Photos of Railroad Business Cars anyone?

Kevin,

Some years back, the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society published a book, "Santa Fe Business and Special Service Cars".  Available at Caboose Hobbies and other fine stores.

In 1992, Ralph Barge authored "Union Pacific Business Cars 1870 - 1991".  It has photos, plans and text.

In the mid-1970s, Patrick J McLaughlin published privately, "Vanishing Varnish, Business and private Railroad Cars".  It has photos and plans.  PLEASE try to find this one, I treasure my copy.

ChipR

Thanks Chip.

I will look out for both of those publications.

I came across this interesting item on the internet "So you want to own a Passenger Car" from American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners

http://www.aaprco.com/ownership/AAPRCO_intro_v26.pdf

I figured it was a lot of details getting hooked up on the end of a train, but didn't realize it was that much. 

National Train Day 2014: 

Other cars at the Pittsburgh Amtrak station: 

A few photos from my various trips on the Pennsylvanian. 

Forum member B&O Bill has posted some wonderful details and photos from his Private Varnish trips.  I particularly enjoyed this post detailing a ride on MKT 403:

https://ogrforum.com/t...form-observation-car

--Reed

I rode on the Amtrak 10000 back when my dad was in management at Amtrak (this was sometime in the 1970s). I toured many, many cars when the AAPRCO convention was in Washington, DC (1984). I've been on/seen numerous office cars at museums from the RR Museum of PA to the Illinois Railway Museum. Gosh! There's just too many to remember. I'll leave you with a couple of my pictures from the Streamliners at Spencer event (I have a feeling the first shot will got a lot of comments)...

I'll leave you with a couple of my pictures from the Streamliners at Spencer event (I have a feeling the first shot will got a lot of comments)...

What a nice car!

Splendid photographs and thanks for the information provided so far.

After viewing the images from B&O Bill's trip, this is something that I need to put on my Bucket List.