Tom McCann Wrote:
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> Here's some pedigree...
>
> The "Olympic" observation car is one of the two
> built by the Budd Company in 1937 for the Reading
> Railroad's "Crusader" streamliner that ran between
> Philadelphia and Jersey City. The Reading sold the
> entire trainset to Canadian National in the early
> 1960s, and the cars lasted into Via Rail Canada
> service. Its sister observation also survives, in
> the collection at the Railroad Museum of
> Pennsylvania outside Strasburg.
>
> The "City of Renton" is a former Milwaukee Road
> Super Dome lounge and its history also includes
> service as a trackside restaurant in southeast
> Portland (first as the "Silver Garden", then as
> the "Warsaw Express".
>
> BTW, the third dome car from the Spirit of
> Washington consist, a former Santa Fe Pleasure
> Dome, wound up going to the Mount Hood Railroad in
> Oregon. It's currently in service on the excursion
> train there along with a former Santa Fe Big Dome
> lounge.

Tom,

Thanks. I would have posted more about the cars, but I have been very busy with work and wanted to get something out. There are several new positive developments I hope to be able to report in the future.