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Bill and Charlie –
The car is 10203 a dining-parlor car.
The note I have on this photo indicates the photo was taken in Omaha in 1956. If that is correct the photo was probably taken near 16th and Nicholas Sts. as hte train is being pulled from the MoPac yards to Union Station via the UP line adjacent to their shops. The puzzling point, though, is that secondary train # 119/110 running opposite the Eagle was a coach-only train with a grill-coach between Omaha and Kansas City. Trains 119/110 did not carry a dining-parlor. So this is either the “Eagle” with a substitute Parlor or 119 with a substitute for the grill-coach. Being it’s a cloudy day without shadows either case may be true. But given the Eagle departed at 8 a.m., my guess is that this is likely train 119.
