Chesapeake & Ohio Coach-lounge 1700

Built in 1950 by the Pullman Car Company in Pennsylvania for the Pere Marquette Railway and numbered 134. It was used on a streamliner in Michigan between Detroit and Grand Rapids. It was delivered when the Pere Marquette Railway merged with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. Although it stayed in the Pere Marquette Railway's paint scheme, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad renumbered this luxury coach to 1700. It would serve on passenger trains in Michigan until 1971. This was the time when road and air transportation would replace the need for most rail transportation. Amtrak was also taking over the passenger train services throughout the United States. The Chesapeake & Ohio coach was then used on the Western Maryland Railway as an instruction car and then on commuter trains between Maryland and Washington, DC. It has been retired and is on display at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum in the parking lot today.