OK so I finally got to chicago after wanting to go for a few years, and I seen that the South Shore had a train that looked like married pairs of gallery cars, but were MUs, I also spotted one Metra electric train that had the same. As I tried to search the web for info I could not find anything about it other than Nippon Sharyo built the cars. There are plenty of photos and from all of the details, they look to be exactly the same as the gallery cars except for the center door arrangement being that one door provides low and high level boarding and the other provides just high. Question is are these cars being re-built from old gallery car shells or are they of new construction using the gallery cab car tooling?
No good deed goes unpunished.