Chessie Steam Special
Season One
Car #12
Air Conditioned Coach

CSS (S1) Coach Car #12 was leased from the Old Dominion Chapter of the NRHS. The 54-seat heavyweight streamlined coach was former Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac #706. Built by Bethlehem in 1925 as #532, modernized and renumbered 706 in 1956. Today the car is used on the Buckingham Branch Railroad for Chapter excursion trains in Dillwyn, VA.

Image: William F. Howes, Jr 5/28/1977 at Cumberland, MD.

The car returned for the second season (1978) as CSS (S2) #17.

Image: Paul Amos collection.

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