1 of 54 chairs built by the Milwaukee Road between December 1947 and March 1948 as #498-#551, having been ordered in May 1947. 28 cars were delivered as 48 seat chairs, and 26 cars as 52 seat chairs; #520 had 48 seats. MILW later reconfigured 39 cars to 40 seat leg rest chairs, which were renumbered to the #6xx-series in 1956-1957, #520 as #624 in 1957. Sold in 1974 to Amtrak #4010, retired and sold in 1976 to Union Center Venture in St. Louis, later to City of Prineville RY and used on Crooked River Dinner Train (with the name RICHARD BROWNING WRIGHT), then acquired by MRSR. EXIF: 12:46 PM, f/3 @ 1/500, ISO-100 |