Soo Line, Railway Business Car 54
Oct 19, 2022 01:04:33 #
This car was built as a high-end lounge/buffet car in 1914 and then in 1927 remodeled as a business car for Soo Line railway officials.
One end is a lounge, compete with a phone. In the middle is a kitchen, staff bunk room and dining room, then the other end is bedrooms for the executives. The VIPs had to rough it when traveling, or not!
The people here in Southern California who bought it from the RR in the 60s repainted it and named it the "Mt Rubidoux" using it for railway fan excursions before it came to the railway museum I belong to.
This shot is from the door leading to the kitchen and dining room, looking back through the lounge to the door to the platform on the end of the car. Sorry about the extreme light, it was a very sunny day in January, with the afternoon sun shining almost level from the right. The interior is dim because of the dark polished wood walls and ceiling. This was before I learned to do HDR to handle such extremes of light.
Canon 6D, 14 mm manual lens (I think, not sure but that about the time I bought that lens and I used for a lot of interiors at the railway museum.), 1/100 @ ?, ISO-640
Handheld
The EXIF data is incomplete because the third party manual lens didn't communicate with the camera and this was January 10, 2015 so I don't remember the missing information.
One end is a lounge, compete with a phone. In the middle is a kitchen, staff bunk room and dining room, then the other end is bedrooms for the executives. The VIPs had to rough it when traveling, or not!
The people here in Southern California who bought it from the RR in the 60s repainted it and named it the "Mt Rubidoux" using it for railway fan excursions before it came to the railway museum I belong to.
This shot is from the door leading to the kitchen and dining room, looking back through the lounge to the door to the platform on the end of the car. Sorry about the extreme light, it was a very sunny day in January, with the afternoon sun shining almost level from the right. The interior is dim because of the dark polished wood walls and ceiling. This was before I learned to do HDR to handle such extremes of light.
Canon 6D, 14 mm manual lens (I think, not sure but that about the time I bought that lens and I used for a lot of interiors at the railway museum.), 1/100 @ ?, ISO-640
Handheld
The EXIF data is incomplete because the third party manual lens didn't communicate with the camera and this was January 10, 2015 so I don't remember the missing information.
Oct 19, 2022 06:54:11 #
Oct 19, 2022 12:43:28 #
hippi wrote:
Thanks a lot. The company execs really had to rough it on business trips.
Oct 20, 2022 08:46:07 #
I got to ride in a Pullman car custom-made for the President of the Nickle Plate Railroad. Exquisite from end to end!
Oct 20, 2022 11:36:37 #
jaymatt wrote:
I got to ride in a Pullman car custom-made for the President of the Nickle Plate Railroad. Exquisite from end to end!
Of course, the “Nickle Plate Line” got its nickname because of the standard it was built to, so we wouldn’t expect any less from them.
Oct 20, 2022 12:53:09 #
jaymatt wrote:
I got to ride in a Pullman car custom-made for the President of the Nickle Plate Railroad. Exquisite from end to end!
They treated themselves very well.
Some rich individuals had their own private cars, they arranged to be hooked to a train to travel. Very wealthy people had small engines that went with and a car for the servants and crew. Even their own sidings and spur lines leading to estates, summer homes etc. Just like many factories and businesses had/have their own spur lines, small rail yards, switch engines etc.
Oct 23, 2022 10:47:48 #
Oct 23, 2022 17:29:02 #
Jay Pat wrote:
Beautiful car and enjoyed the story!!!!
Pat
Pat
Thanks and you are welcome.
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