Metroliner Interiors

[P40Power]

I was curious to see what the interior of the original Metroliner MU cars looked like, and how they compared to the Amfleet cars, but I havent had much luck finding a picture of their original interiors under either Penn Central or Amtrak.

I did suceed in finding a photo of one which had been turned into a cab car, its interior was refurbished into a Concept 2000 scheme and looks pretty much like anyother Amfleet coach with that style interior.

So does anyone have, or know of a site with photos of the original Metroliner interiors?

 

[Amfleet]

...looks pretty much like anyother Amfleet coach with that style interior.

You pretty much got it. I don't think there was much interior difference from the Amfleet. The seats could possibly be of a different design, maybe the luggage racks too, but thats about it.

 

[railman]

Actually, the original interiors of the Metroliners c.1968 were very "Star Trek" in their decor and styling. So were the hostess uniforms! I haven't stumbled across any images online but there are lots of hits in a google serach -- I didn't check them all...

 

[Amfleet]

All I found was a blurb on how the seats were a birght orange.

 

[PRR 60]

The seats were a burnt orange, not atypical of styles in the late 1960's. The design was based on establishing the feeling of an aircraft with small windows and a curved body cross-section. Amazingly, that same style carried forward to the Amfleet design and is still the workhorse style for Amtrak passenger equipment over 35 years later.

The only partial (very partial) interior view I found is here. This is an old PC RR Metroliner postcard.

 

[P40Power]

Wow from the looks of the far left picture, the chairs could swivel around, thats a pretty neat feature!! Other then that it doesnt look too much different from an un refurbished Amfleet. I looks pretty comfortable with those big seats.

 

[PRR 60]

Wow from the looks of the far left picture, the chairs could swivel around, thats a pretty neat feature!! Other then that it doesnt look too much different from an un refurbished Amfleet. I looks pretty comfortable with those big seats.

That was the "first class" car. Single seating and swivel seats. The coaches were similar to Amfleet.

 

[P40Power]

Ahhh I see, the Metroclub. Well I think the swivel chair feature is intresting. Did the Metroclub have its own food service bar in the middle just like Amclubs do?

 

[F59 PHI]

In the mid 90s they had standard amfleet 1 seats with amfleet 2 interior colors.