There’s a little known trend that a handful of railroads partook in during the middle of passenger rail’s decline in the late 50s, as small, lightweight coaches were trialed on new passenger trains to look more sleek and to lighten the amount of wear on increasingly worse tracks. Not to be outdone by their northeastern neighbors, the Pennsylvania Railroad worked with the Budd Company to create a unique combination of coaches with lightweight design with a low center of gravity, but were not articulated and were hauled by an existing engine. Only eight of these coaches were built, as they had a somewhat mysterious career after brief passenger service on the Pennsy, as they were some of the last coaches to be constructed by Budd before the formation of Amtrak. This, is the little known story of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Keystone coaches, also known as the Tubular Train.
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Music Used in Order:
Jazz Mango - Joey Pecoraro
A Trip Around The Moon - Unicorn Heads
Hello Mr. Princeton - Otis McDonald
Fantasyland - Quincas Moreira
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