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I know of two places where this is easily found. One is an Eagle article on heavyweight coaches, researched and written by Ed Hawkins. The issue includes a spreadsheet on every steel coach owned by MP Lines. The issue is Spring/Summer 2004.
Car 6328 was rebuilt in the early 40s from coach 8173, built 2/1915. Most of the cars rebuilt at that time got larger men’s and women’s lounges, one at each end of the car, so the seating capacity was reduced. The spreadsheet does not include the seating capacity, since this is an all-time roster and so many cars were rebuilt. The most likely number is in the range of 50-ish or a few more seats. Sometimes you can count the seat pairs based on the windows, but this is not foolproof.
The other source — Some of the sets of passenger car diagrams are available from the Society, but I can’t lay my hands on mine right now. I know we published a CD of cars surviving after 1963, and a CD of passenger car diagrams beginning with the 1880s. After my move I’ve only just today uncovered some of these CDs, but the passenger car one is not there.
This CD is currently available from the Company Store.
RG7
