DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND SOME PICTURES ON THE PENNSYLVANIA RR’s KEYSTONE CARS. PLEASE EMAIL
richardtrains@comcast.net
Didn’t you try to post on this before?
If you go here, you can find out what some of the cars are currently like:
http://www.michiganstarclipper.com/
(or call them at (248) 960-9440) – the site makes no reference whatsoever to the Keystone ‘depressed-center cars’ but this operation has them.
The book on New York Central Train X and the trains of the future has a discussion of this train. Searching the Web using “tubular train” is probably the best approach, as apparently that’s what Budd wanted to call it. I assume you’ve checked the ‘usual suspect’ color PRR-in-the-Fifties books. Large-scale .gif drawings of at least one of the cars (the power/food-service car) are available via this link:
http://kc.pennsyrr.com/passops/passclass_hp53.ws4d
(be sure to select the ‘large-scale option’ after you’ve picked a drawing from the list on that page)
October 1956 Trains had an article on the Tubular Train, and there have been pix in other issues of Trains at various times in the long history of this interesting set.
Silverchamp…
Dave Randall’s book, Passenger Car Library, Budd,Volume 4, has complete builder’s photos and car plans. That’s RPC Publications and his number is 618.465.5513.
Mitch