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Kevin Painter's Collection
 
5/2/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Morristown & Erie Railroad
Type: Passenger Car
AAR Class: PA: Car equipped to handle passengers.
AAR Type: M500
Detail Info:   Misc Cars
User Notes:   "Morristown", built by Budd in 1953 as 46 seat coach 2834 for ATSF. Later Amtrak. Rebuilt with 58 seats for Amtrak Clocker Service.

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ME 5603
Title:  ME 5603
Description:  Built by Budd in 1946 as a 56 seat coach for the Florida East Coast Railway & named Jacksonville. To Seaboard Air Line in 1965 & numbered 6263. To Seaboard Coast Line #5627. Transferred to Amtrak and renumbered 5627. It was sold in 1985 to Denver Railcar, r/b into a 54-seat coach and served in tourist service in Canada before being purchased by the Morristown & Erie Railway in 2003 to operate on the Maine Eastern Railroad. Renumbered ME 1003 & named Magnolia. The car returned to New Jersey in 2016 and was renumbered 5603 and had its new name applied, Ridgedale.
Photo Date:  1/6/2018  Upload Date: 1/7/2018 8:34:52 PM
Location:  Whippany, NJ
Author:  Kevin Painter
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