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9/16/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Southern
Type: Passenger Car
AAR Class: PA: Car equipped to handle passengers.
AAR Type: M500
Detail Info:   Misc Cars
User Notes:   Warrio River: to AMTK 2861 to PPCX 800327; used to move rocket boosters in the 90s; scrapped on crash site in Mississippi in 2008

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SOutherns Warrior River sleeper
Title:  SOutherns Warrior River sleeper
Description:  4.7.1985 Parked on a siding next to the main yard in Charlotte, NC Southern's Warrior River, ex #2023, a 10-6 sleeper car (she was not a passenger car), used on the Boston to L.A. run that included the Southern Crescent and SP Sunset Limited, Shown here after she had undergone a fine restoration to full Southern livery before being sold to the Promontory Chapter NRHS. It had not been renumbered PPCX 800327 yet. Sadly, after the derailment in 2007, she was scrapped in 2008.
Photo Date:  4/7/1985  Upload Date: 5/9/2024 4:05:39 PM
Location:  Charlotte, NC
Author:  Lee Herbert
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Views:  24   Comments: 0
PPCX 800327
Title:  PPCX 800327
Description:  The car was part of the derailment on the Meridian & Bigbee in 2007 and was scrapped in 2008. The car landed on its side in the accident. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18441424/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/bridge-collapses-nasa-bound-train-derailed/. UP 8437 See photos of the accident at: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/archiveThumbs.aspx?id=33633
Photo Date:  1/1/1999  Upload Date: 1/16/2013 7:33:12 PM
Location:  Chaires, FL
Author:  G Gerard
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