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PRR Congressional observation car

By Angela Cotey | March 19, 2018

| Last updated on August 8, 2025

During a preview trip, members of the press enjoy one of the new parlor-lounge-observation cars the Pennsylvania Railroad acquired from Budd for the March 1952 re-equipping of the Congressional and Senator.
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