Passenger Trains > SP articulated pair of cars

Would anyone have a photo they could share of what these cars looked like ?
What train did it run on?
What paint scheme?

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Kitchen/dorm cars

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Dining cars

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Kinda like this:

http://www.broadway-limited.com/1576spcoastdaylightpassengercararticulatedcoffee10258kitchen10257diner102563-carsetho.aspx

They also had similar cars on the Shasta Daylight. Remember riding one around the time of the Amtrak start-up.

That seems a really oddball way to show the set.....using a never did exist two of each car display, in what is otherwise......NOT a Daylight triple unit diner, but a Lark or Cascade Club set.

They were arranged in this order, front to rear: Kitchen-dorm, dining room, tavern lounge.

AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA

Plans 7452 Tavern, 53 Diner, and 54 Kitchen/ Dorm were the Lark Triple-unit cars.
There were 2 sets built.
They were Two Tone Grey.
Both were scrapped.

The Cascade cars were similar, but smooth sided. Those two still exist. Fun fact: one of the Cascade sets was nearly used on the AFT. $$ ran short and the PreAmble cars were used instead. Probably just as well- the AFT had planned to cut into the rear car to make an open
platform!
Ouch!
SR



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/21/17 17:53 by BoilingMan.

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,4285824

Pictures 3&4



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/21/17 18:30 by us058980.

BoilingMan Wrote:
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> Plans 7452 Tavern, 53 Diner, and 54 Kitchen/ Dorm
> were the Lark Triple-unit cars.
> There were 2 sets built.
> They were Two Tone Grey.
> Both were scrapped.


The three-car set that until a couple of years ago was on private property
near Bullard, Texas was an intact Lark Club. It was used as a party venue
by its owner.

Prior TO threads:

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,1537942,1537942#msg-1537942

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,2285308,page=1

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,2288786,2288786#msg-2288786

Owner B.B. Garrett died in 2013 and his estate put his collection up for sale.

In 2013 a sale to the City of Grapevine, TX was announced.

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,3058910

It was spotted in Grapevine, on its wheels, in December 2014:

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,3600987,page=1

No news since.



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 09/21/17 21:19 by GenePoon.

The Texas set is a Lark set?!
That's pretty cool (I thought it was a Cascade set)
So we have both a Lark & a Cascade (at Niles, CA- this was the almost AFT set).
Nice.
SR