The beautiful "Pontchartrain Club"lounge car is the first in the four car consist. Still wearing the IC and Iowa Pacific brown & orange paint scheme, it looks fairly well at first glance. The former Illinois Central sleeper-observation car “Pontchartrain Club” was first built as a heavyweight coach car but rebuilt by the IC into a parlor observation car by the IC and named “Mark Beaubien”. Private owners later converted it to a sleeper-observation and named the car “Eaton”. The car was further upgraded and painted in IC colors by the current owners who renamed it “Pontchartrain Club”. private owners into |
Date:
9/30/2021 |
Location:
Kokomo, IN Map |
Views:
193 |
Collection Of:
Gary Everhart |
Rolling Stock: |
Author: Gary Everhart
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Picture Categories: Roster,RollingStock,Passenger |
This picture is part of album: Mystery Train in Kokomo, IN |