Business Cars and Other “300 series” Cars

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Business Cars
308 Business Listed in 1897 as division superintendant’s car
349 4-6 Business 1884  wooden. 12-wheel conversion 1916.  Scrapped Mauch Chunk  Sept. 22, 1928. Body set on ground for dining car crews laying over at Packerton.
350 77’ 11-3/4” 6 Business Oct. 1, 1908 wooden Sayre 12 wheel. To tool car #94200 Jan. 2, 1945. Scrapped Packerton, Dec. 10, 1954
351 4 Business Listed in 1886 as division superintendent’s car.
351 6 Business Aug. 1904. 12 wheel  conversion, electric lights added 1911; to work car #94201, Jan. 4, 1945; scrapped, Sayre, July 3, 1959.
352 6 Business Former Erie RR 1878. Official general manager’s car. Electric lights added Dec., 1916; sold to Mr. Acker, President, Centralia Colliery, Feb. 6, 1936. Had been used as pay car.
352 76′ 4″ 6 x 36″
5′ 3″
Business Clerestory roof; Rebuilt Baggage Car #1076, Oct. 30, 1944 (orig. Pullman, 1912). Sold Boston & Maine June 20, 1955 at Newark, N.J. for $31,500. Later sold Bessemer & Lake Erie. 9’10” wide, 186,900 lbs. Ice activated air conditioning. Sleeps 7  See kitbash by Chuck Davis
353 Private For Lehigh Valley Coal Co.
353 Business President’s car by 1886. Repaired Sayre Feb. 2, 1911. Cancelled Oct. 28, 1911; purchased March, 1916; repaired Sayre; burned Sayre June, 1920.
353 82’ 5-3/4″ 6 x 36″
5′ 6″
Business Clerestory roof. Pullman, steel 1912.
353 81’ 10” 6 Business Pullman Sept., 1916; President’s car.  Purchased from Conrail by Richard Horstman, Syracuse, 1977. After his death sold to John Scully; restored 1997. Currently at Steamtown. 9’11” wide,  202,630 lbs. Ice activated air conditioning added 1940. Sleeps 8 Rich Jahn’s article in FD&S 3/1 covers the history of this car, with floor plans & interior & exterior photos.
354 Business Director’s car in 1885; steel under frame added 1915.  Work car #96570 April 20, 1933. Scrapped Aug. 14, 1933
356 Business Superintendent’s car, 1897
Other “300 series” Cars
354 Dining 1889
354 6 Dining Harlan & Hollingsworth 1906; steel sill
355 6 Dining Pullman 12/1902. Steel under frame, Sayre Jan, 1914. Renumbered 1004 Feb.,1924; scrapped June 15, 1934, Sayre.
356 Dining Pullman 12/1902  12 wheel Steel under frame, Sayre, January 1914 Scrapped Sayre May 11, 1940, Sayre
357 Dining Wagner 1894  Remodeled 1910.  Steel under frame, May, 1915. Scrapped Sayre, June 15, 1934
358 6 Dining Wagner 1894; remodeled May 25, 1911. Steel under frame May, 1915. Work coach #96578, May 4, 1933. Sold July 29, 1952.
359 6 Dining Wagner 1896; remodeled Sayre June 12, 1912. Scrapped at Sayre Aug. 25, 1934
360 6 Dining Barney & Smith Sept., 1898. As dinner and kitchen car for troop movements, Aug 14, 1918. Work kitchen car #97360 Sept. 18, 1931. Scrapped Sayre May 3, 1938.
361 6 Dining Barney & Smith Dec, 1904; originally #419. Steel sill. Work service #94109 Jun 1937. Scrapped Aug. 1939.
362 6 Dining Barney & Smith Dec, 1904. Originally Cafe Car #420. Steel under- frame/ ends, Mar, 1916. Scrapped July 17, 1939.
365 Dining Lunch car, from coach #965, 1934. Sold H.D. Co., May 17, 1934
366 Dining Agricultural car; motion picture machine purchased and installed Aug. 23, 1913.
500 Dining Car Dept. Sleeper, rebuilt coach 927; scrapped Lansdowne Aug. 4, 1952.
572 Palace horse car, 1897