Private Car 4067 (Spirit Of Tennessee)

Built in 1947 by the Budd Company, P85e Coach No. 4067 carried passengers for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Contrary to the Standard Railroad’s standard practice of smooth sided, Tuscan Red appearances, this car’s all stainless steel look was intended to match the other stainless cars on NYC-Florida bound trains, like the Seaboard Air Line’s Silver Meteor. Because these trains had to use different railroads (SAL, RF&P, PRR) to fully reach between New York City and Miami, each company pooled their own cars to fill out the train’s consists. This car would carry coach passengers along the route thru the Penn Central merger, before going into general pool service with Amtrak thru the rest of the country.

After retirement in 1976, 4067 would find its way to Tennessee in the late 1980s, becoming part of the Broadway Dinner Train. After the train’s demise in 1999, the car was purchased by a museum member and restored as a private lounge car in May 2003. The car was a regular fixture on our trains until May 2017, when it was sold to the owner of The Butin Group; our next door neighbors.