For years, Amtrak has hauled vintage passenger cars around the country at the rear of regularly scheduled passenger trains. For this service, the owners of the private cars pay about...

Every so often, you’ll see a private rail car at the rear of an Amtrak train. The insider term for those cars is “PV”, which is shorthand for “private varnish”....

Every so often, you’ll spot one of Amtrak’s long-distance trains with one or more vintage railroad cars hooked onto the end of the train. Most of those wonderful old cars...