Q: I was dropping a friend off at the station in our town a week or so ago and the Lake Shore Limited went through with a classic passenger rail car...
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”....
If you want to take your interest in trains to a whole new level, there’s always “private varnish.” That’s the inside term for privately-owned railroad cars and referring to the...