#slumbercoach

[diecastmania]

1946 Mercury Eight Sportsman -1947 Wesley Slumbercoach Travel Trailer

Both models are 1:43 scale and were issued by Brooklin Models.

[thefakeray]

Amtrak Slumbercoach 2093 by Chuck Zeiler Via Flickr: Amtrak Slumbercoach 2093, named Loch Katrine, at Lakeland, Florida on September 29, 1984, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 2093 was built by Budd in 1959 as B&O 7702, named Restland. It was sold to the NP in 1964, becoming NP 330 and named Loch Katrine. It became AMTK 2029, and upon conversion to HEP became AMTK 2093, retired February 2001.

[thefakeray]

Amtrak Slumbercoach 2097 by Chuck Zeiler Via Flickr: Amtrak Slumbercoach 2097 at 18th Street in Chicago, Illinois on July 26, 1983, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. It appears that this car was built by Budd in 1958 as B&O 7701, named DREAMLAND, sold to High Iron Company (Ross Rowland), possibly used as sleeping quarters for the American Freedom Train restoration crew, sold to Amtrak in 1983.

[thefakeray]

Amtrak 2092 Loch Arkaig by Chuck Zeiler Via Flickr: Amtrak Slumbercoach 2092 at 18th Street in Chicago, Illinois on September 27, 1986, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 2092 was built by Budd in 1959 as NYC 10802, a 24 single bedroom - 8 double bedroom sleeper named Loch Arkaig, sold to the CB&Q in 1964, numbered NP 335, to BN 335, then to AMTK 2033, and upon conversion to HEP in April 1981 became AMTK 2092, retired September 1996.

-As a side note, this car is currently preserved at the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, GA

[thefakeray]

Amtrak Slumbercoach 2023 by Chuck Zeiler Via Flickr: Amtrak Slumbercoach 2023, named Silver Repose, at about 18th Street in Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in November 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 2023 was built by Budd in 1955 on Job 9691-169 as CB&Q 4903, named Silver Repose. Inside were 24 single bedrooms and eight double bedrooms. The CB&Q recieved four Slumbercoaches delivered during October and November 1956. The NP and B&O also had Budd Slumbercoaches. I rode in one Slumbercoach on the Denver Zephyr during August 1964, and I can attest that the single bedrooms were compact. Although each single bedroom had a toilet, it was covered at night once the bed was lowered. If you required the toilet during the evening, you had to open the door, step into the hallway, raise the bed, do your business, get back into the hallway and lower the bed. Not a problem for me as I was 16 at the time and my bladder was young.