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Railroad barons including Leland Stanford had their private cars. Abraham Lincoln disliked the ornate railroad car
Lucius Beebe and his life partner Charles Clegg owned two private railroad cars, the Gold Coast and the Virginia City.Beebe's book Mansions on Rails: The Folklore of the Private Railway Car (Berkeley, California: Howell-North, 1959) presented the first history of the private railroad car in the U.S.The Gold Coast is now in the collection of the California State Railroad Museum. The Virginia City is available for private charter.
The Survivor was a private railroad car built by the American Car and Foundry Company in 1926 for Jesse Woolworth, the heiress to F.W. Woolworth. The car was used by the Woolworth family from 1926 through 1939, transporting the family to French Lick, Pinehurst, the Greenbrierand Palm Beach. The car is reputed to have been the courtship car of Mrs. Donahue's niece, Barbara Hutton, and Cary Grant. The current owner Dante Stephensen purchased the car in 1982 and has progressively restored it, renaming it The Survivor. It is based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dedicated railroad buffs rescued some private varnish cars from scrapping.Chartering of these formerly private cars has become a sideline in the upscaletravel industry, with its own niche magazine Private Varnish. Amtrak regulations require head-end power and train control wiring, though some cars generate their own power and can run on freight lines as well. Most restored private cars have been rebuilt to modern specifications.
Such carriages were extremely rare in the United Kingdom, although a notable example was the Duke of Sutherland's saloon, which is preserved at the National Railway Museum in York.
in the 21st century private coaches are very rarely used anywhere in the world, though in some countries a coach of this kind can be rented for vacations, business meetings or other such occasions needing the privacy of a dedicated coach. As the capacity of rail transport is large, it takes special operations to include a private coach in an otherwise public train. A railcar might be better suited for this kind of luxury, but the timetables of normal operations limit the accessibility of locations along the tracks.
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