• Pigeon Key Visitor Center car

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Discussion relating to the FEC operations, past and present. Includes Brightline. Official web site can be found here: FECRWY.COM.

Moderator: GOLDEN-ARM

  by GojiMet86
 
Does anyone know the identity of the Pigeon Key train? I have been looking online for a while. I did see something that it might have been a Florida East Coast Railway coach, so I figured I would post it here. The closest I have gotten is this information on Railway Preservation News:

http://www.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.ph ... 3&start=30
I think that heavyweight is an M-K-T 1930s vintage car. Cast-integral pedestals, heavy fabricated belt rail, wide single windows; all shout "Katy".

Any M-K-T experts here ? (which I am assuredly not)

Howard P.
Per "More Classic Trains", page 254:

I think the Keys car is Frisco "Tulsa" or "Oklahoma City", a lounge car built in 1933. The window arrangement is an exact match. According to Art Dubin's caption, these cars were two out of a total of six passenger cars ordered in the US in that Depression year of 1933.

Howard P.
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