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Santa Fe Railway H&M Society. Hardcover. New. Santa Fe Railway Passenger Car Reference Series Volume 4: Business & Special Purpose Cars based on the original work by Frank M. Ellington & Joseph W. Shine. For over a century Santa Fe Railway's management and executives had at their disposal a fleet of railroad cars designed for business. Completely self-contained, a Business car served as a mobile office and allowed an official to visit his territory first hand, and stop and talk with employees on the way. Often these cars were also used for entertaining VIP's. The first cars built expressly for this purpose were delivered in 1893. While designed with a certain amount of comfort in mind, they were not opulent or extravagant. (There were exceptions, such as Car 17 built for Santa Fe President E. P. Ripley in 1907). Santa Fe was unique in also having a fleet of junior edition Business cars for the more prosaic service of a Division Superintendent, a tradition that was carried into the heavyweight era.…
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Santa Fe Business & Special Purpose Cars Hardcover - 2008
by Frank M. Ellington and Joseph W. Shine
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- Title Santa Fe Business & Special Purpose Cars
- Author Frank M. Ellington and Joseph W. Shine
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Santa Fe Railway Historical And Modeling Society
- Date 2008
- ISBN 9781933587110
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