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The September 2007 issue of the Arkansas Railroader contained an article by the late John Mills on MP parlor car service. (See attachment below.)
John had an encyclopedic memory and this parlor car article came out of a lengthy discussion that he and I had earlier that year on Amtrak’s Capitol Limited en route to or from Washington DC. John was spouting numbers faster than I could write them down, and I really encouraged him to get the information written down where it could be published. Fortunately, he produced this document later that year. The Arkansas Railroader publication is defunct, but I feel certain that John’s son would be happy to approve republication of this article in the Eagle. It could be easily expanded with additional information and car assignments to fill in additional data from other parts of the system.
According to the John Mills article, the usual car on Memphis-Hot Springs trains 219-220 was 10613, with 10612 held in stand-by service. Both cars were indeed in Eagle colors.
Bill Pollard
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