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Orient Express Built in 1949 by ACF as UP 5004, a lunch/cafe car. Served the UP until 1971, then the Alaska Railroad before going to American-European Express. Seats 46, and has a galley at one end. In regular GLR service to the end. Image: CC Rails |
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In 1991, magician David Copperfield made the car disappear on broadcast television. The illusion was taped in a blimp hanger in Tillamook, OR, where other passenger train cars were being refurbished for Transisco Tours, another excursion train. More on that illusion HERE. Researched by Pesci, historian and collector of all things David Copperfield. Image: Edward Kerns II at Acca, VA April 8, 2006 |
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The car went on to become 800301 CRATER LAKE for the American Railway Explorer, and then to the Greenbrier Presidntial Express in 2011. To New Hope & Ivyland in 2014. Image: interior by Todd Schannuth at Los Angeles 2002 |
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