TCRX 7628

This car began life in 1953 at the Budd Company in Philidelphia, PA, as Santa Fe Railway 2835. Seating forty eight passengers, 2835 was intended to serve the Chicago-Los Angeles El Capitan streamliner, which only lasted for three years. The car and its siblings were placed in the general pool, meaning that the car would appear on any train wherever it was needed. When the Santa Fe handed its service over to Amtrak in 1971, the car was renumbered 4714 and incorporated into their Heritage Fleet, eventually rebuilt with Head End Power (HEP) in 1983. It was also during this rebuild when more seating was added for expanded capacity on the Northeast Corridor’s, “Clockers;” the high speed express runs between New York City and Washington DC in three hours. After a couple of more renumberings, and eventually made redundant by newer equipment, 7628 was purchased by the museum in 2003, and has served dutifully on our excursion trains since.

This car is available for First Class Seating!