Catching an off road business car on the Rio Grande Zephyr was rare to the extreme. A Union Pacific car was coupled just ahead of Rio Grande's Wilson McCarthy on train No. 17 the evening of Aug. 5, 1976.
What did passenger trains look like before Amtrak in America, and Via Rail in Canada? Find out in this album with 2,700+ Historical Photos from early passenger trains of North America from the 1900's up until the early years of Government passenger trains