American Freedom Train Car #7700

This ex-B&O 24-8 Budd slumbercoach (built February 1958 to plan 9540, Lot 9691-211 for service on the Columbian between Baltimore and Chicago) was owned by the High Iron Co. Its name was SLUMBERLAND (former B&O 7700, future Amtrak 2096). The car was used for sleeping quarters for the restoration crew of 2101 at the Hagerstown roundhouse. As with cars #448 (diner) and #200 (SPLENDID SPIRIT observation car), this car (lettered AFT) accompanied T-1 #2101 on its test runs in March 1975. Currently in storage at Avalon Rail in Milwaukee, WI

At the time, The High Iron Company also owned several other cars, mostly kept at Lebanon, NJ including former B&O Slumbercoach 7701 DREAMLAND (future Amtrak 2097, now at the B&O Railroad Museum), former New York Central 406, and former Delaware & Hudson 2936.

If anyone has information about this sleeper -- car number, heritage, photos, current disposition -- please email us . Thanks go to Jon Clark, J. D. Floyd II, and Dan Quiat for much of the information on this car.

Image: Courtesy of the Braun Bros Collection. Pictured at Lebanon, NJ November 8, 1974.