| Alaska Railroad Budd dome coach 7073 at Beech Grove, Indiana on February 4, 1987, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 7073 was built by Budd in 1955 as CB&Q 1333, part of the Burlington's contribution to the Great Northern Empire Builder, thus originally painted in Empire Builder colors, later Big Sky Blue. The following is from http://www.trainweb.us/railnewspb/Q/#1333/ Number 1333 was assigned BN 4613 (not applied), became AMTK 9473 in 1972, was leased to ARR between April 1984 and December 1985 as a stand-in while ARR changed over from steam heat to HEP, was returned to Amtrak and operated on the Texas Southern between 1987-1988, in May 1993 to Calvin Gerhard, Private Railcars Inc., leased in June 1996 to North Central "Liberty Limited" dinner train, New Freedom, Pennsylvania. North Central closed in late 2001, car moved to Bellevue, Ohio for work and was assigned number 800737, renamed "Glass Slipper" and entered charter service in mid-2004. |