Nostalgia & History > Remembering Pennsy heavyweights

Back in 1960, The Pennsy still ran heavyweight cars on most Washington-New York trains. Here's view of some: P70 coaches in color, and "The Legislator" with a heavyweight parlor-buffet car behind the GG1.  Back in the days of 620 film.

B&OB

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Would like to see more 620 photos if available. Thanks

OK, here's more PRR 620, and then I also started a  620 thread for all railroads.  All these circa 1959-1960 in Washington, DC.

B&OB

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B&OB,

Thanks for posting these shots!  In the second photo, the heavyweight Pullman parlor-restaurant-lounge is PRR #7007 Lambs Club, which was built in 1929 in Lot #6289 to Plan #3992, 1 of 7 such cars built in that Lot for the Pennsy; all cars were outshopped in December.  These cars when built had 13 parlor chairs, a buffet (kitchen), a 12 seat dinette (2 4-seat tables and 2 2-seat tables), and a 16 seat lounge.  The floor arrangement was altered several times, each time resulting in a new suffix to the original Plan: #3992B, #3992C, etc.  Between August and October 1943, these cars were changed to Plan #3992G, with 12 parlor chairs, kitchen, 24 seat dinette (6 4-seat tables), and a 14 seat lounge.  Besides the Engineers Club, which was destroyed by fire at Philadelphia's Broad Street Station in September 1943, the remaining 6 cars were sold on 12/31/1945 to PRR as #7005-#7008 and #7011-#7012.  All 6 cars were withdrawn from Pullman lease in October 1956, and 3 cars were subsequently transferred to the MofW department; the #7007 as #492061.  The car was later sold to the Midwest Railway Historical Foundation (MRHF), which began as the equipment-owning arm of the Midwest Chapter NRHS.  After splitting from the Chapter, MRHF became the Midwest Railway Preservation Society, and MRPS is based at the former B&O roundhouse/yard in Cleveland.  I recently acquired on eBay a Jay Brown slide of the Lambs Club as owned by MRHF in Cleveland on May 26th, 1991, although I don't know if the car is still extant, or if it is still owned by MRPS.

2 additional cars were built in June 1930 to Plan #3992A, and were also sold to PRR on 12/31/45 as #7009-#7010, these 2 cars were also withdrawn from lease in October 1956, with one transferred to the MofW department.  Besides the Lambs Club, there is another car from Lot #6289 which survives: #7012 Rotary Club, which was later MofW #27280, and is now located in Berea, OH, as the Berean.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/30/15 15:05 by Rainier_Rails.

Ted, thanks for that interesting information. It just shows, one never know what treasures can appear when you post old photos on Trainorders!

B&OBill

That's an exceptionally interesting car / class history.  Thanks for sharing