First Restored Superliner

[chertling]

Joseph Boardman was in Beech Grove yesterday to unveil the first Superliner car restored as part of the recent stimulus funding. From the picture, you can tell it was a sightseer lounge.

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/20302642/detail.html#

 

[Bob Dylan]

Joseph Boardman was in Beech Grove yesterday to unveil the first Superliner car restored as part of the recent stimulus funding. From the picture, you can tell it was a sightseer lounge.

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/20302642/detail.html#

Great news, first dibs is for the EB from SEA to SPK,then the poor CONO and its sister the TE,weve been ignored too long

down here,hopefully the diners will come next so the PDX-SPK tain can have @ least a CCC and give the EB another way

to feed its full loads! :lol:

 

[MrEd]

wonder what the car number is, I would like to keep an eye out for it.

 

[OlympianHiawatha]

I wonder if it has "new generation" innards or is pretty much a standard rebuild with the regular blue chairs and tables?

 

[the_traveler]

The video showed the regular blue chairs. Of the 1/2 car it showed, it looked like a normal Sightseer.

 

[MrFSS]

It went by quickly, but it looked like 33016 was the car number. Anyone else able to see it?

 

[Ryan]

33016 is on the list at OTOL of the cars to be fixed:

http://www.on-track-on-line.com/amtkrinf-stimulating.shtml

 

[chertling]

It went by quickly, but it looked like 33016 was the car number. Anyone else able to see it?

I was able to pause the video at just the right moment... it was 33016. And as HokieNav stated, it is on the OTOL list.

 

[DET63]

33016#! wrecked Home Valley WA 4/05 $1,184

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# means wrecked

! means to be rebuilt with stimulus funds

$1,184 means $1,184,000 estimated cost to repair

Source

If it was wrecked at Home Valley, WA, it would have been on either 27 or 28.

According to this page, it was 27. However, the report also says the "spill" occurred in Oregon, which in fact is across the river from the accident scene.

 

[cpamtfan]

Yes, its 33016. I noticed in one of the views of the workers rebuilding some cars, I noticed a Viewliner, either a sleeper or the prototype diner . I sure hope it was the diner. And note that Sightseer got the cherry veneer walls as in the diner-lounges/recently refurnished diners.

cpamtfan-Peter

 

[ALC Rail Writer]

Think it will have a little plaque somewhere on the inside "Repaired by the Federal Re-Investment and Recovery Act fund" ?