All of a sudden I’m reminded of that wonderful old Alfred Hitchcock movie, North by Northwest. Nothing personal. - a.s.
North by Northwest–that was indeed quite a movie. I have always wondered how Cary Grant managed to survive in a closed upper; it seems to me that he would have been either crushed or suffocated.
Gotta take some liberties, I guess, but people are wondering how he got that wonderful composite shot that pans from the interior of the train to the left, going outside, with the waning sun and the Husdon just to the west, giving the forward cars (gently curvng to the left) a nice luminosity. BTW the cars looked streamlined to me but I might be mistaken. The 20th Century Ltd. would not have fluted cars in 1959, would it?
Still, a great shot no matter how contrived. - a.s.
Cars for the Century
Except for four slumbercoaches built by Budd in 1959 (two for the Century, and two for the New England States), the cars that were built for the Century after the war were built in 1949 by Pullman. But, by 1959, it is possible that cars that had been built by Budd in 1949 for other trains were assigned to the Century. The pre-war cars were all built by Pullman in 1937 and 1938, and were assigned to other trains or used in general service after the new cars arrived.