SLRG 8527

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Ted Brumberg	General	The heavyweight passenger car on the right is SLRG #9168, named JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, a 12 section-1 drawing room (12S-1DR) sleeper built in 1929 by Pullman in Lot #6220 to Plan #3410B, 1 of 16 such sleepers built in Lot #6220 for service on the Pennsylvania RR, all of which were sold to PRR at the 12/31/1948 Pullman divestiture; the JOHN GREENLEAF WHIITIER as PRR #8836. The WHITTIER was removed from Pullman service in 1967, and was later sold to the Ohio Railway Museum. Iowa Pacific acquired the WHITTIER in 2012. For more info, see these 2 threads on RYPN: Surviving Pullman Heavyweight Sleeping Cars http://www.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=30187 and Iowa Pacific Passenger Car Roster http://www.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=36455	9/16/2014 8:09:09 PM

Matt Bradley	General	Thanks for the info Ted! Cool stuff indeed!	9/19/2014 10:14:45 PM

SLRG 8527
Date: 6/12/2014	Location: Alamosa, CO Map	Views: 1604	Collection Of: Matt Bradley
Locomotives: SLRG 8527(B39-8E)			Author: Matt Bradley

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