pebbleworm
Lead Service Attendant
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- Apr 21, 2009
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Periodically the topic of slumbercoaches comes up, and there aren't many good pictures of the interiors available on the web. Ozark Mountain Railcar has a couple of distressed examples available, so you can get the grand tour at:
http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/detail.asp?id=503&n=Loch-Rannock
and
http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/detail.asp?id=504&n=Loch-Locky
Click the "view gallery" button to see all! Pink fiberglass, formica, claustrophobic hallways and the dreaded in room toilet with a view of the tracks. When I rode in slumbercoaches in the early 1980s as a college student I loved them- the difficult part was getting my spacey parents to let me book the room early enough, since from Chicago to NYC they were usually sold out for xmas well before Halloween. Whether Amtrak loved them as much I cannot say, but having to change linens for 1.5X the base coach fare must not have been a real moneymaker...
http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/detail.asp?id=503&n=Loch-Rannock
and
http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/detail.asp?id=504&n=Loch-Locky
Click the "view gallery" button to see all! Pink fiberglass, formica, claustrophobic hallways and the dreaded in room toilet with a view of the tracks. When I rode in slumbercoaches in the early 1980s as a college student I loved them- the difficult part was getting my spacey parents to let me book the room early enough, since from Chicago to NYC they were usually sold out for xmas well before Halloween. Whether Amtrak loved them as much I cannot say, but having to change linens for 1.5X the base coach fare must not have been a real moneymaker...