Thursday, May 21, 2020

Manhattan Elevated Cars in Arkansas


Following up on one of our favorite subjects, railroad cars turned into roadside diners, a long-time reader sent us the link to this site:


Two of these diners were already on our own list, with some of the same pictures, but this site has more.  I was especially struck by the picture of an IT Class B in wartime paint pulling a train of El cars at the ACF plant in St. Charles, Mo.  Read the whole thing, as they say.

1 comment:

  1. Randy,
    Two of the WWII Richmond cars are in the collection of the Western Railway Museum. Cars #561 and #563 were built by Gilbert & Bush in 1887.

    Another wood Elevated car from New York is at the Shore Line Trolley Museum Now Money Car G, it was built by Gilbert & Bush in 1878. As shown in the picture, they were hauled by steam locomotives in their early years.

    Ted Miles

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