Check Wayners Cars Name Numbers and Consists.
I believe there were two other PRR Budd Pullmans. If I recall, one was named
Sturgeon Rapids.
sjl
rgortowski@a... wrote:
> Steve,
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> Great answer on the Silver Rapids. One minor correction, though. The PRR
> bought a bunch of 10-6 sleepers from Pullman-Standard and a few from ACF, but
> the Silver Rapids was the only Budd built PRR 10-6 sleeper. It was bought
> specifically to match the other CZ cars and ended up as a one-of-a-kind after
> the service was over. The PRR had a very close relationship with PS, just as
> the Q had with Budd, and the majority of their cars came from PS. Amazingly,
> the PRR did buy other cars from Budd in stainless steel, but except for a few
> special cases, they painted the cars in Tuscan Red after etching the surface
> chemically!
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> The whole transcontinental sleeper story is very interesting and many
> "foreign" road sleepers turned up in the strangest places!
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> Rich
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