| Built in 1925 by Pullman in Lot #4922 to Plan #3523A as a 6C-3DR sleeper, 1 of 40 such cars built in that Lot; cars were outshopped between October and December. 7 cars were built for the OVERLAND LIMITED and 5 cars for the Santa Fe; the remaining 28 cars were built for the general service pool. At the 12/31/1948 divestiture, only 4 cars were sold to the railroads: 2 to SP, 1 to NYC, and 1 to PRR (which had been rebuilt in 1926 to 4C-4DR); the other 36 cars were retained by Pullman, most until the 1960s. Of these 36; 2 were sold in 1958 to NYC for scrapping, 2 cars were sold in 1959 to James E. Strates Shows, GLEN EYRE was sold in 1964 to WP as business car #103 (now in Jamestown, CA), GLEN NEVIS was sold in 1966 to Halliburton (now at the Museum of the American RR), GLEN ALTA was sold in 1965 to Jack Ferris Private RR Cars, Inc. (later to Strates Shows, then to IRM, now owned by Iowa Pacific), and the GLEN SPRINGS was sold in 1964 to William W. Kratvilles Autoliner Corporation as #101, and was later acquired by IRM. EXIF: 2:42 PM, f/5.6 @ 1/180 |