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Owner: Chicago Rock Island & Pacific
Type: Passenger Car
AAR Class: PA: Car equipped to handle passengers.
AAR Type: M500
Detail Info:   Misc Cars
User Notes:   "Minnesota"

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CRIP 454 MINNESOTA
Title:  CRIP 454 MINNESOTA
Description:  Budd coach - lounge RE observation. This car was rebuilt as an Instruction car in 1965 with this image likely representing what it looked like after conversion.
Photo Date:  10/24/2006  Upload Date: 7/18/2007 6:25:19 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  R. Porter
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  3259   Comments: 0
CRI&P #454 MINNESOTA
Title:  CRI&P #454 MINNESOTA
Description:  CRI&P 28 seat chair-27 seat parlor observation #454 MINNESOTA (Budd, Lot #972, September 1937), built as 28 seat chair-club-24 seat parlor observation, changed in 1948 to 16 seat forward parlor-club-20 seat rear parlor observation, changed again in 1953 to 28 seat chair-club-20 seat parlor observation, changed a third time in 1957, with removal of the club, and parlor seating increased to 27, modified in 1965 to IBM instruction car, still as #454 but with the name removed, retired later that year and sold to Landlow Warehouse (South Bend, IN), resold in 1988 to a restaurant in Elkhart, IN, now at the National New York Central RR Museum in Elkhart. Scanned with an Epson V550 from a duplicate Ektachrome 35mm slide. Date, location, and photographer are unknown.
Photo Date:  12/8/2014  Upload Date: 1/28/2025 6:25:25 AM
Location:  Unknown, US
Author:  Unknown/John C. Benson Collection
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  15   Comments: 0
CRIP 454 "Minnesota"
Title:  CRIP 454 "Minnesota"
Description:  Interior.
Photo Date:  12/15/2021  Upload Date: 1/1/2022 9:12:27 PM
Location:  Elkhart, IN
Author:  Nicholas Katz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,InCab,Station,Passenger,Track
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Views:  148   Comments: 0
CRIP 454 "Minnesota"
Title:  CRIP 454 "Minnesota"
Description:  Faux-NYC
Photo Date:  12/15/2021  Upload Date: 1/1/2022 8:47:05 PM
Location:  Elkhart, IN
Author:  Nicholas Katz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Station,Passenger,Track
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Views:  153   Comments: 0
NS 4202, NYC 454 + 19211
Title:  NS 4202, NYC 454 + 19211
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/22/2022  Upload Date: 11/14/2022 8:37:49 PM
Location:  Elkhart, IN
Author:  Andrew Goblirsch
Categories:  Track
Locomotives:  NS 4202(AC44C6M)
Views:  114   Comments: 0
CITY OF ELKHART
Title:  CITY OF ELKHART
Description:  Former CRI&P chair-club parlor observation #454 MINNESOTA at the National NYC RR Museum, painted in NYC colors and named CITY OF ELKHART. Built by Budd in September 1937 in Lot #972 as CRI&P #454 MINNESOTA, 28 seat chair-club-24 seat parlor observation, forward chair section changed to 16 seat parlor in 1948 (rear parlor seats reduced to 20), forward section returned to 28 seat chair in 1953, bar removed in 1957 (rear parlor seats increased to 27), to instruction car (for new IBM equipment) in 1965, retired and sold later same year to Lanlow Warehouse in South Bend, IN, resold in 1988 to a restaurant in Elkhart, IN, later moved to the National NYC RR Museum. EXIF: 6:55 AM, f/3.5 @ 1/250, ISO-100
Photo Date:  5/4/2023  Upload Date: 1/8/2025 7:08:40 AM
Location:  Elkhart, IN
Author:  Ted Brumberg
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  27   Comments: 0


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