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Rebuilt from US Army Hospital and Bureau of Mines cars 1949 by Puget Sound; acquired surplus (photo), went to Yakima in 1987; more

(photo, photo) Built by A.C.F. in lot number 3022; floor plan 7667157. Delivered to the Union Pacific in April 1949. The car was sold to the Alaska Railroad in 1971, then in 2001 sold to Monad Railway Equipment. held until 2002; sold to Orlenko. Arizona Railway Museum purchased the car in May 2003 and it was delivered to ARM in September 2005. AZMX 4815, Sept. 2009, UP 4815, 2016

Built for UP Overland Route trains; Sold to New Georgia RR in 1987 as NGRR #2002, renumbers to #1512; Sold at 8/1995 auction to Florida Gulf Coast Railroad Museum (now the Florida Railroad Museum) as FGCX #2002

See also:

• String of passenger cars in Fairbanks
• Harding car information
• 1946 passenger equipment list
• A.E.C. 1922 purchase order for three passenger cars from the Great Northern Railway Co.
• Railway Express Agency #332
• Also check out Jason Kuehn's 1973-1984 passenger car synopsis
• Engineering drawing for Northern Pacific Railway Company passenger coach 1-9
• Great Northern Railway combination passenger and baggage car
• Great Northern Railway dining cars
• Mail baggage cars 51 and 52
• Observation car Nenana
• Observation car Nenana (engineering drawing)
• Great Northern Railway observation cars
• Great Northern Railway parlor car Tanana
• Great Northern Railway sleepers
• Jonathan Fischer catches retired passenger cars at Birchwood
• Montana Rail Link Passenger Car info

From Curt Fortenberry on 9/26/14:

Former Army hospital cars were in number series 89300-89361 (not all consecutive # cars were received).
One car became A-3 Sportsman charter car, and was rebuilt to baggage #60 in 1959.
Another was proposed to be A-2  business car, and was rebuilt to baggage #71.
A-4 Woodsman was rebuilt to bagg/mail #59 in 1958.

When comparing to John's roster:
I have #51 as a former Army boxcar, not hospital car.
I have 73/74 as former Army troop cars, not hospital cars.
I have 86 as former Navy.

From Bob Garner on 10/30/14:

Daniel Osborne suggested that car 003 was the Compartment Observation Kenai. I have the Mainline Modeler article that covers Both Denali &  Kenai and they were identical cars.

My suggestion is, that since this was a Gene Adoline (served during WWII) photo that this car may have come from the Copper River & North Western. The car is bracketed by Troop cars.