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7/30/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Reading Blue Mountain & Northern
Type: Passenger Car
AAR Class: PA: Car equipped to handle passengers.
AAR Type: M500
Detail Info:   Misc Cars
User Notes:   Ex-GTLX/AMTK 8701

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RBMN 1168
Title:  RBMN 1168
Description:  Built as Southern Pacific  French Quarter 40 seat club lounge-valet/stewardess room with shower #2988 (Budd 1950), sold to Amtrak and renumbered #3310 (1971), rebuilt to HEP Auto Train café car #8701 (1983). Stored in 1994 and retired in 1995. Sold by Amtrak to Illinois Transit Assembly Inc. (ITAX) in 1996. Bought by Mid America Railcar Services in 2010 and used in their extensive lease fleet, seeing service behind locomotives such as NKP 765 in 2013 as a commissary car. Sold 2014 to IFE Railcar Leasing/Phillip Schridan and used on several St Louis Union Station excursion trains for Marriott. During this period Great Lakes Railcar (GTLX) reporting marks were carried. Sold to Reading and Northern November 2021 and renumbered 1168.
Photo Date:  2/4/2022  Upload Date: 2/5/2022 3:38:44 PM
Location:  North Reading, PA
Author:  Kevin Painter
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RBMN 1168
Title:  RBMN 1168
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Photo Date:  2/5/2022  Upload Date: 2/5/2022 3:37:56 PM
Location:  North Reading, PA
Author:  Kevin Painter
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RBMN 1168
Title:  RBMN 1168
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Photo Date:  2/5/2022  Upload Date: 2/5/2022 3:37:38 PM
Location:  North Reading, PA
Author:  Kevin Painter
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Views:  257   Comments: 0
Ex-AWP diner #501
Title:  Ex-AWP diner #501
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Photo Date:  2/6/2022  Upload Date: 2/6/2022 6:03:49 PM
Location:  North Reading, PA
Author:  Kevin Painter
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RBMN 1168 seating end
Title:  RBMN 1168 seating end
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Photo Date:  5/28/2022  Upload Date: 5/29/2022 1:51:34 PM
Location:  Jim Thorpe, PA
Author:  Kevin Painter
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RBMN 1168 consessions/sales end
Title:  RBMN 1168 consessions/sales end
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Photo Date:  5/28/2022  Upload Date: 5/29/2022 1:57:12 PM
Location:  Jim Thorpe, PA
Author:  Kevin Painter
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Banner inside RBMN 1168
Title:  Banner inside RBMN 1168
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Photo Date:  5/28/2022  Upload Date: 5/29/2022 1:57:18 PM
Location:  Jim Thorpe, PA
Author:  Kevin Painter
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RBMN 1168 sales/consessions car
Title:  RBMN 1168 sales/consessions car
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Photo Date:  5/28/2022  Upload Date: 5/29/2022 1:57:06 PM
Location:  Jim Thorpe, PA
Author:  Kevin Painter
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Views:  435   Comments: 0
RBMN 1168
Title:  RBMN 1168
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/2/2022  Upload Date: 8/14/2022 3:01:59 PM
Location:  Reading, PA
Author:  Nicholas Katz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Station,Passenger,Track
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RBMN 1168
Title:  RBMN 1168
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Photo Date:  7/2/2022  Upload Date: 8/14/2022 3:08:23 PM
Location:  Reading, PA
Author:  Nicholas Katz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Station,Passenger,Track
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RBMN 1168
Title:  RBMN 1168
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Photo Date:  2/11/2023  Upload Date: 2/11/2023 5:20:17 PM
Location:  Tuckerton, PA
Author:  Kevin Painter
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Views:  392   Comments: 0
RBMN 1168
Title:  RBMN 1168
Description:  Pocono Grill
Photo Date:  5/3/2023  Upload Date: 5/3/2023 5:55:55 PM
Location:  Port Clinton, PA
Author:  Kevin Painter
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RBMN 1168
Title:  RBMN 1168
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/29/2023  Upload Date: 6/29/2023 9:29:30 PM
Location:  North Reading, PA
Author:  Kevin Painter
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Views:  451   Comments: 0
RBMN 1168 is part of the consist on the Iron Horse Ramble
Title:  RBMN 1168 is part of the consist on the Iron Horse Ramble
Description:  This car was built by Budd in 1950 for the Southern Pacific as a 40 seat club lounge-valet/stewardess room with shower.
Photo Date:  8/13/2023  Upload Date: 8/21/2023 2:54:17 PM
Location:  New Ringgold, PA
Author:  Jay Epstein
Categories:  Passenger,Action
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