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Owner: Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe
Type: Business Car
AAR Class: PS: Company service car, including office cars, instruction cars, display cars, etc.
AAR Type: M530
Detail Info:   Misc Cars
ATSF Class:   Steam Heat
User Notes:   "Mountainair", ex-AT&SF #5004, nee-U.S. Steel "Laurel Ridge", P-S, 1949, to BNSF #8 "John S. Reed" (#800567)

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ATSF 53
Title:  ATSF 53
Description:  ATSF 54, business car "Mountainair" brings up the rear of an eastbound pig train, likely the 991. The Mountainair was originally the Laurel Ridge, a private car built by P/S for heirs to U.S. Steel. Santa Fe acquired it about 1962 and rebuilt it to this configuration. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  3/1/1984  Upload Date: 1/26/2010 12:58:02 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  1135   Comments: 2
AT&SF #53 JOHN S. REED
Title:  AT&SF #53 JOHN S. REED
Description:  Santa Fe lightweight business car #53 JOHN S. REED, built in March 1949 by P-S in Lot #6835 to Plan #7611 as United States Steel LAUREL RIDGE, sold to the Santa Fe in 1962 as #5004 and renamed MOUNTAINAIR, renumbered to #53 in 1974, later renamed JOHN S. REED at an unknown date, received an Amtrak #800xxx-series number at an unknown date, specifically #800567, to BNSF #8 JOHN S. REED. Scanned with an Epson V550 from an original Kodachrome 35mm slide.
Photo Date:  6/17/1991  Upload Date: 8/4/2017 9:35:37 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  John C. Benson
Categories:  Passenger
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BNSF #8 JOHN S. REED
Title:  BNSF #8 JOHN S. REED
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Photo Date:  7/24/2016  Upload Date: 5/19/2019 11:35:43 PM
Location:  Seattle, WA
Author:  Ted Brumberg
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  311   Comments: 0
BNSF 8
Title:  BNSF 8
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Photo Date:  1/31/2020  Upload Date: 2/3/2020 5:56:16 PM
Location:  Riverside, CA
Author:  Cameron Smith
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  170   Comments: 0


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