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Amtrak Won’t Haul Private Varnish.
ByLoomis 03/28/201803/29/2018

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”. That’s a reference to the lovely wood paneling and trim that’s found in many of those cars. Most of those classic rail cars are…

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Riding in Style, Feeling Like Royalty.
ByLoomis 03/08/2015

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 are owned by private individuals, most of whom belong to an organization called the American Association of Private Railcar Owners. Last April, when I…

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