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Owner: Amtrak
Type: Passenger Car
AAR Class: PA: Car equipped to handle passengers.
AAR Type: M500
Detail Info:   Misc Cars
AMTK Class:   Heritage
User Notes:   Ex 4457, Ex-UP 5525, Budd 1961, to 1733 04/1996

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AMTK coach 4632
Title:  AMTK coach 4632
Description:  Former Amtrak coach 4632 was parked outside of Pete Messina’s car repair shop in the Kansas City Southern’s WEST YARD, just outside of New Orleans. The car had been built by Budd in 1961 as Union Pacific 5525 and was subsequently Amtrak 4457 and then HERITAGE FLEET car 4632. This car arrived in New Orleans on 14 November 2000.
Photo Date:  11/20/2000  Upload Date: 7/25/2019 5:27:59 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  427   Comments: 1
AMTK coach 4632
Title:  AMTK coach 4632
Description:  Former Amtrak coach 4632 was parked outside of Pete Messina’s car repair shop in the Kansas City Southern’s WEST YARD, just outside of New Orleans. The car had been built by Budd in 1961 as Union Pacific 5525 and was subsequently Amtrak 4457 and then HERITAGE FLEET car 4632. Amtrak sold the car in on 14 November 2000.
Photo Date:  11/20/2000  Upload Date: 7/25/2019 5:27:24 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  313   Comments: 1
AMTK coach 4632
Title:  AMTK coach 4632
Description:  Former Amtrak coach 4632 was parked outside of Pete Messina’s car repair shop in the Kansas City Southern’s WEST YARD, just outside of New Orleans. The car had been built by Budd in 1961 as Union Pacific 5525 and was subsequently Amtrak 4457 and then HERITAGE FLEET car 4632. This car arrived in New Orleans on 14 November 2000.

Union Pacific 5508-5527 were the only Budd-built coaches owned by the railroad and became Amtrak 4440-4454, 6062, 4456-4459. During 1980-81 the 19 4400-series cars were rebuilt as HERITAGE FLEET cars 4627-4645, but not in order; and in 1996 13 of these were rebuilt into 1700-series baggage cars.
Photo Date:  11/20/2000  Upload Date: 7/25/2019 5:28:15 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  556   Comments: 1
AMTK coach 4632
Title:  AMTK coach 4632
Description:  This was the outside swing hanger truck under the vestibule end of former Amtrak coach 4632 while it was parked outside of Pete Messina’s car repair shop in the Kansas City Southern’s WEST YARD, just outside of New Orleans. The car had been built by Budd in 1961 as Union Pacific 5525 and was subsequently Amtrak 4457 and then HERITAGE FLEET car 4632. This car arrived in New Orleans on 14 November 2000.
Photo Date:  11/20/2000  Upload Date: 7/25/2019 5:28:32 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  391   Comments: 0


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