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9/15/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Milwaukee Road
Type: Passenger Car
AAR Class: PA: Car equipped to handle passengers.
AAR Type: M500
Detail Info:   Misc Cars
User Notes:   Built as 48 seat chair, later 40 seat leg rest chair

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MRSR #520
Title:  MRSR #520
Description:  1 of 54 chairs built by the Milwaukee Road between December 1947 and March 1948 as #498-#551, having been ordered in May 1947. 28 cars were delivered as 48 seat chairs, and 26 cars as 52 seat chairs; #520 had 48 seats. MILW later reconfigured 39 cars to 40 seat leg rest chairs, which were renumbered to the #6xx-series in 1956-1957, #520 as #624 in 1957. Sold in 1974 to Amtrak #4010, retired and sold in 1976 to Union Center Venture in St. Louis, later to City of Prineville RY and used on Crooked River Dinner Train (with the name RICHARD BROWNING WRIGHT), then acquired by MRSR. EXIF: 11:15 AM, f/3 @ 1/500, ISO-100
Photo Date:  7/19/2014  Upload Date: 7/22/2014 7:44:51 PM
Location:  Mineral, WA
Author:  Ted Brumberg
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  529   Comments: 0
MRSR #520
Title:  MRSR #520
Description:  1 of 54 chairs built by the Milwaukee Road between December 1947 and March 1948 as #498-#551, having been ordered in May 1947. 28 cars were delivered as 48 seat chairs, and 26 cars as 52 seat chairs; #520 had 48 seats. MILW later reconfigured 39 cars to 40 seat leg rest chairs, which were renumbered to the #6xx-series in 1956-1957, #520 as #624 in 1957. Sold in 1974 to Amtrak #4010, retired and sold in 1976 to Union Center Venture in St. Louis, later to City of Prineville RY and used on Crooked River Dinner Train (with the name RICHARD BROWNING WRIGHT), then acquired by MRSR. EXIF: 11:19 AM, f/3.3 @ 1/1250, ISO-100
Photo Date:  7/19/2014  Upload Date: 7/22/2014 9:24:56 PM
Location:  Mineral, WA
Author:  Ted Brumberg
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  657   Comments: 0
MRSR #520
Title:  MRSR #520
Description:  1 of 54 chairs built by the Milwaukee Road between December 1947 and March 1948 as #498-#551, having been ordered in May 1947. 28 cars were delivered as 48 seat chairs, and 26 cars as 52 seat chairs; #520 had 48 seats. MILW later reconfigured 39 cars to 40 seat leg rest chairs, which were renumbered to the #6xx-series in 1956-1957, #520 as #624 in 1957. Sold in 1974 to Amtrak #4010, retired and sold in 1976 to Union Center Venture in St. Louis, later to City of Prineville RY and used on Crooked River Dinner Train (with the name RICHARD BROWNING WRIGHT), then acquired by MRSR. EXIF: 12:46 PM, f/3 @ 1/500, ISO-100
Photo Date:  7/19/2014  Upload Date: 7/22/2014 9:13:47 PM
Location:  Elbe, WA
Author:  Ted Brumberg
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  241   Comments: 0
MRSR #520
Title:  MRSR #520
Description:  1 of 54 chairs built by the Milwaukee Road between December 1947 and March 1948 as #498-#551, having been ordered in May 1947. 28 cars were delivered as 48 seat chairs, and 26 cars as 52 seat chairs; #520 had 48 seats. MILW later reconfigured 39 cars to 40 seat leg rest chairs, which were renumbered to the #6xx-series in 1956-1957, #520 as #624 in 1957. Sold in 1974 to Amtrak #4010, retired and sold in 1976 to Union Center Venture in St. Louis, later to City of Prineville RY and used on Crooked River Dinner Train (with the name RICHARD BROWNING WRIGHT), then acquired by MRSR. EXIF: 12:46 PM, f/3 @ 1/1250, ISO-100
Photo Date:  7/19/2014  Upload Date: 7/22/2014 9:04:48 PM
Location:  Elbe, WA
Author:  Ted Brumberg
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  302   Comments: 0


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