PRR/Penn Central 1968 Budd Metroliner snack bar car 860
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- The Metroliner was built in 1969 by the Budd Company at Red Lion for the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) service between New York Pennsylvania Station and Washington DC Union Station. 61 cars were build by the Budd Company of Philadelphia and came in pairs numbered 800-830, 850-869, and 880-889. The cars were built for 150 mph. The Metroliner service was pass down from PRR to Penn Central in 1969, then to Amtrak in 1971. Metroliner service was served by hauled locomotives in 1990 due to the age and the low reliability of the Metroliners. Some of the trains still see service today on Amtrak. All but one were reconfigured into cab control cars, with the removal of traction motors and pantographs. The Metroliner service was discontinued on October 29th, 2006 and was replaced by the Acela Express. This is the only Metroliner in existence in its original form.
I have saw this at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania on September 5th 2021.
I hope that this will be restored fully. The "Metros", in spite of their problems, were popular back on the day.
+ACLTony
They were great looking cars and way ahead of their time in styling 50 years ago.
I totally agree on the styling, definitely ahead of its time and it still looks modern till this day...but then again that could be because the Metroliner lives on in the 500+ Amfleet I and II cars that still are in daily service as well as the few former Metroliner cab cars still in service.
ACLTony and it will be painted into a PRR/Penn central budd Metroliner and it will have a new speed limit and it will be up to 180mph and it can travel from 85mph to 185mph and it will have the same pantograph as the acs-64 and the same wheels as the acs-64s and it's restoration will be completed on Martin Luther king day in 2018 and some amtrak gp40s are gonna rebuilt 2 amfleet cars into the same color as the PRR silver budd metroliners and one Amtrak Pennsylvanian car will be rebuilt into a budd Metroliner #860 and it will have the same pantograph as the acs-64s and they will be restored in 2018 in Martin Luther king day and also it will be used in the keystone corridor between new york, Philadelphia, harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Columbus, and Indian and Chicago and it will be used by amtrak's northeast
that's cool I like the U30C in the back
0:39 saw Amtrak E60
I compared my new WalthersProto HO scale 85' Budd Metroliner EMUs to the PRR 860 prototype in the video, and I am really impressed. Walthers got the body proportions correct and the underbody detail is right on. The detail on the HO scale models looks accurate. Walthers really did a great job getting their models to look realistic like the PRR/Penn Central/Amtrak Metroliner prototypes. They've really nailed it!
Yup. Better than the Bachmann Metroliners and more detailed
that looks good condition
So wow I want that as a private car lol
But you have to pay everyday for their problems
James Padre Juan true
E60MA 603 is in the background. :( Long live the old NEC
Woah!
that shot looks like at Strasburg pa
It is
Tis will be taken to Altoona, PA n Amtrak 145 and it will be repainted into the same color as the PRR coaches in the past and also 7 Amtrak coaches will be repainted into the same color as the PRR coaches from the past and one Amtrak coach will be rebuilt into a PRR metroliner and also it will have have a new speedometer that goes from 0mph to 195mph and also at 195mph
What the hell are you talking about?
I wonder if the R&N can acquire 860 and Lehigh Valley Budd 40?
Weren't the PRR Keystone trainsets kind of a similar design? I know they had a tubular design, but I don't know if its a similar design.
Where is this? I would like to go!
Where is this preserved?
In Strasburg, Pennsylvania.
@@TheEline2733 Can I steal it? How much is it worth?