| Great
Northern |
Road
# Natalie |
| 28-1
Parlor Car Passenger Car |
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Part #MTL-143 00 020
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N Scale Supply Price: |
| New: Aug 2010 |
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| This Pullman
heavyweight parlor car is painted Pullman Green with ‘Natalie’
logo and lettering in metallic gold. It was built in the 1920s
by Pullman-Standard and runs on six wheel passenger trucks. In
1942, Great Northern purchased their only two 28-1 parlor cars;
they were the CORDELIA and the NATALIE. Cordelia and Natalie were
built in 1924 and re-numbered to coach numbers #1083 & #1084
respectively by the GN in December of 1942. They were rebuilt
into Buffet-Parlor-Observation cars TWIN CITIES (#1083) and TWIN
PORTS (#1084) in 1952. The introduction of the steel cars brought
the end of the wooden cars which had been the rule since the 1880s.
With the opening of the Pennsylvania Station in New York in 1910
and the Grand Central Terminal in 1913, passenger safety in the
tunnels approaching these buildings demanded a more noncombustible
material than wood. |
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