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Owner: AAPRCO Register Private Cars
Type: Passenger Car
AAR Class: PA: Car equipped to handle passengers.
AAR Type: M500
Detail Info:   Misc Cars
User Notes:   SLRG 551 "Sky View"

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Auto Train #513
Title:  Auto Train #513
Description:  Auto Train Corporation 59 seat full dome club lounge-dormitory, ex-AT&SF 83 seat full dome club lounge-12 bunk dormitory #551, Budd, Lot #9646-146, 1954, to Curtis Potter-Passenger Car Associates, leased to Golden Arrow, to Holland America Westours KOBUK, to Iowa Pacific #551/#800966 SKY VIEW. Scanned with an Epson V550 from an original Kodachrome 35mm slide. Exact date is approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1972  Upload Date: 7/21/2016 3:52:52 AM
Location:  Sanford, FL
Author:  Robert E. Warren/Roger Bee Collection
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  587   Comments: 0
SLRG 551 Sky View
Title:  SLRG 551 Sky View
Description:  Iowa Pacific Full Length Dome Car Sky View of Santa Fe Heritage comes off the A&C at Cadiz on the ATSF 3751 Excursion Train and then back onto a siding track where the engine will be serviced
Photo Date:  5/19/2012  Upload Date: 6/2/2022 1:07:07 AM
Location:  Cadiz, CA
Author:  Ryan Hahn
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Views:  133   Comments: 0
SLRG 551
Title:  SLRG 551
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Photo Date:  2/7/2014  Upload Date: 2/8/2014 4:15:43 PM
Location:  Martinez, CA
Author:  Ben Margherone
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  263   Comments: 0
SLRG 551
Title:  SLRG 551
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/18/2014  Upload Date: 3/19/2014 4:01:12 PM
Location:  Benicia, CA
Author:  Ben Margherone
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  414   Comments: 0
PPCX 800966
Title:  PPCX 800966
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Photo Date:  2/6/2015  Upload Date: 2/9/2015 11:43:27 PM
Location:  San Pablo, CA
Author:  Ben Margherone
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  295   Comments: 0
PPCX 800966 - Former ATSF "Sky View"
Title:  PPCX 800966 - Former ATSF "Sky View"
Description:  Close up of two of the numbers this car has been registered under. Now it belongs to the Iowa Pacific company and stored in Chicago until leased for travel like this Fall New River Gorge Train.
Photo Date:  10/21/2017  Upload Date: 1/16/2021 4:45:59 PM
Location:  Hinton, WV
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  73   Comments: 0
PPCX 800966 - Former ATSF "Sky View"
Title:  PPCX 800966 - Former ATSF "Sky View"
Description:  Close up of the former ATSF full dome/lounge car name "Sky View". Now owned by the Iowa Pacific, stored in Chicago Amtrak yard and leased throughout the country like this Fall New River Gorge Train.
Photo Date:  10/21/2017  Upload Date: 1/16/2021 4:46:05 PM
Location:  Hinton, WV
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  82   Comments: 0
PPCX 800966 - Former ATSF "Sky View"
Title:  PPCX 800966 - Former ATSF "Sky View"
Description:  Built by the Budd Company in 1953 full dome lounge car for use on the premier San Francisco Chief. The dome has 57 lounge seats and a lower level lounge, bar and crew quarters. When passenger service declined, ATSF sold the car to the Auto-Trainin 1971. When the Auto-Train went bankrupt, the car was sold to C.C. Potter. Finally it was sold to the Westours Company for private travel trains in Alaska (renamed Kobuk). In 2007, this car was sold to the Iowa Pacific roster based in Chicago Amtrak Yard.
Photo Date:  10/21/2017  Upload Date: 1/16/2021 4:46:10 PM
Location:  Hinton, WV
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  73   Comments: 0
PPCX 800966 - Former ATSF "Sky View"
Title:  PPCX 800966 - Former ATSF "Sky View"
Description:  Close up of the current owner of the former ATSF full dome car/lounge "Sky View". Quite a boomer history of bouncing from one owner to another!
Photo Date:  10/21/2017  Upload Date: 1/16/2021 4:46:16 PM
Location:  Hinton, WV
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  74   Comments: 0
SLRG #551 SKY VIEW
Title:  SLRG #551 SKY VIEW
Description:  EXIF: 4:36 PM, f/3.5 @ 1/800
Photo Date:  6/19/2019  Upload Date: 10/12/2021 2:52:43 PM
Location:  Hood River, OR
Author:  Ted Brumberg
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  145   Comments: 0


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