Larry E Shankles
April 11th, 2004, 06:22 AM
FYI
For a week or two there has been a new passenger car parked toward the West side of the BNSF shop here in Topeka, just East of the BN baggage car that has been here for years. Today I found a street where you could get close enough to it that I could see identification. It is marked RPCX 3252 and also has B&O METCALF scrawled on it (the car is painted brown with the lettering in white and is in poor shape, many windows have plywood). RPCX is Railroad Passenger Cars Inc. And the B&O had a BE Observation, 5 Bedroom, Buffet, Lounge 23-seat car, named 7503 METCALF, it was originally C&O 2505 OHIO RIVER CLUB. And the number 3252 is the number it had under Amtrak. My records indicate is has had at least three private owners prior to RPCX. My guess is, it is here to be a parts donor for the BNSF business car fleet.
For a week or two there has been a new passenger car parked toward the West side of the BNSF shop here in Topeka, just East of the BN baggage car that has been here for years. Today I found a street where you could get close enough to it that I could see identification. It is marked RPCX 3252 and also has B&O METCALF scrawled on it (the car is painted brown with the lettering in white and is in poor shape, many windows have plywood). RPCX is Railroad Passenger Cars Inc. And the B&O had a BE Observation, 5 Bedroom, Buffet, Lounge 23-seat car, named 7503 METCALF, it was originally C&O 2505 OHIO RIVER CLUB. And the number 3252 is the number it had under Amtrak. My records indicate is has had at least three private owners prior to RPCX. My guess is, it is here to be a parts donor for the BNSF business car fleet.