PRR for Railway32

Pennsy Passenger Cars

Baggage Cars
B60B [PRR B60B] One of the more common PRR baggage cars, the B60 class numbered over 900 cars in service.
B60B (Express Messenger Equipped) [PRR B60B Messenger] This B60B is equipped for express messenger service, as indicated by the star under the Railway Express Agency lettering. These cars were equipped with a desk, safe, water cooler, lockers, toilet and sink.
Dining Cars
D85C [PRR D85C] D85C dining cars and D85D kitchen/dormitory cars served together as one dining unit. The D85C was purely for dining customers, containing tables but no kitchen; its companion D85D contained the kitchens and also served as the kitchen staff dormitory.
D85D [PRR D85D]
Coach Cars
P70 [PRR P70] These 80' cars (the 70 in P70 refers to the length of the passenger compartment, not the car as a whole) were very numerous on the vast PRR system; more than a thousand were built. Many were later rebuilt, as shown below.
P70 (ACF version) [PRR P70 ACF] P70s were built by multiple builders with slight variations between batches. This ACF built car has among other things very large door windows.
P70B (snack car) [PRR P70B] This snack car was converted from a P70 coach and contained a small snack bar about half-way along the car.
P70ER Scheme 3 #1735 [PRR P70ER Scheme 3 1735] This experimental rebuild featured a round roof, ice air conditioning and rounded end windows. It seated 42 passengers in great comfort, with 2-and-1 seating.
P70FAR [PRR P70FAR] P70s rebuilt in the late 1930s and early 1940s with an arch roof, mechanical air conditioning and seating for 80 in walk-over seats. Both vestibules were retained.
P70FBR Arch Roof [PRR P70 Arch] Postwar rebuild of later P70 coaches with seating for 80, mechanical air conditioning, two vestibules and arch roof.
P70FBR Clerestory Roof [PRR P70 Clerestory] Some P70fBR coaches retained their clerestory roofs when rebuilt, like this one.
P70FCR [PRR P70FCR] These rebuilt P70s contained a lunch counter at one end of the car.
P70FR Arch Roof [PRR P70FR Arch] These 1937-1941 rebuilds lost one vestibule to give four extra seats. They also were fitted with mechanical air conditioning, and most were given round roofs.
P70FR Clerestory Roof [PRR P70FR Clerestory] Some P70FR cars retained their clerestory roofs when rebuilt.
P70GR [PRR P70GR] These 1937 rebuilds seated 68 in rotating reclining seats, with mechanical air conditioning, round roofs and one vestibule only.
P70R Scheme 1 [PRR P70R Scheme 1] P70 retrofitted with ice air conditioning.
P70R Scheme 2 [PRR P70R Scheme 2] P70 with ice air conditioning, with seating for 60 in rotating reclining seats,and large picture windows.
P85BR [PRR P85BR] 94 of these cars were built 1946-1949 at Altoona (70 cars) and by ACF (24 cars). With seating for only 44 passengers and comfortable reclining seats, they were intended as a much more pleasant experience for the long-distance, overnight coach passenger. The cars featured large, seperate mens' and womens' restrooms and large luggage racks. As passenger revenues fell, the P85BR's small capacity proved uneconomic.
Parlor Observation Cars
POC85AR [PRR POC85AR] Blunt-ended postwar observation car, similar in appearance to the POS21 and POS211 but a parlor car, not a sleeping car, for daytime services I imagine.
Sleeping Cars
PS106 [PRR PS106] Postwar sleeper with ten roomettes and six bedrooms, thirty-two built by Pullman-Standard and twenty-three by American Car & Foundry Co. in the late 1940s. This one is named Clarion Rapids.
PS124 [PRR PS124] Postwar duplex sleeper with 12 duplex single rooms and four bedrooms. Duplex rooms were a clever solution of overlapping elevated and depressed rooms that saved a lot of space. This one is named Chartiers Creek.
PS21A [PRR PS21A] Postwar sleeper with 21 roomettes, eight built by American Car & Foundry in the late 1940s. This one is named Chester Inn.
PS442 [PRR PS442] Fifteen of these were built for the PRR in the latter portion of 1948. They boasted 4 compartments, 4 double bedrooms and 2 drawing rooms. This one is Imperial Brink; it was renamed H.J. Heinz in 1956. Imperial class sleepers were produced for a large number of roads.
Sleeper Observation Cars
POS21 [PRR POS21] Two of these cars were built by Pullman-Standard in 1949 to finish off the consist of the Broadway Limited, the PRR's most prestigious train. If you look closely, this car is lettered for Tower View; the other POS21 was Mountain View.
POS21A [PRR POS21A] The POS21A was the prewar observation car for the Broadway Limited and Liberty Limited. They had a tapered end instead of the flat end of the POS21. This is Federal View, assigned to the Liberty Limited; four of these cars existed.
POS211 [PRR POS211] Seven of these cars were built postwar to finish off the consists of the PRR's other name trains. Not every train had an observation car, only the most prestigious. This one is named Samuel Rea after the president of the PRR 1913-1925. Very similar to the POS21.
POS211A [PRR POS211A] The prewar counterpart to the POS211. This car is named Juniata Narrows; this was its name until 1949, when it was renamed William Chamberlain Patterson. It was sold to Mexico after it was retired from service in 1962. There were three of these cars.

Matthew J Brown
Last modified: Sat Nov 3 17:00:42 PST 2001