Bill,
Just to be more clear that car was built in 1953 and was a baggage car .
https://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2135378005
Does that make sense and remember you asked ?
Not the same exact car, unless some missing details like the number plate location and the steps below the doors were obliterated in an update.
I believe that the paint shop mis-lettered the Buffet car as a Buffer car. It’s a simple typo!
i don’t think so. a BUFFET car would have windows and not so many freight doors.
Maybe this one is designed for ‘Big Eaters’ 
Amtrak buffer cars separate locomotives from cars carrying hazardous materials, while Amtrak baggage cars carry passenger luggage
Same car just Amtrak butchered.
It was built by Budd in 1953 for the Santa Fe Railway/ ATSF car 3515 and became Amtrak 1218, 1031 (baggage) and currently 10404 (Beech Grove BUFFER)
Baggage Car for the Santa Fe Railway, later to Amtrak as a Baggage Car. The car is now used as a buffer car for hauling single and high level cars back and forth to Beech Grove in a single train. The bellows and buffers have been removed so it can operate between High Level cars (like the superliners) and low level cars.
Reporting to the Moderator because this post borders on USEFUL.
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John;
That looks like a good locomotive to post on the Strange Locomotives thread.
Regards, David Meashey
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Old Hat John,
The two plaques on the bottom pissed me off cause all I wanted was another a ribbon not a stupid freaking plaque but a pony might have sufficed at the time!
BTW…The Superliners got the 3rd place ribbon cause they sucked and Utility lost best in show to a modified aristo work caboose. LOL
BTW …Mr. Fletcher signed mine…
Nobody wants to buy that crap it’s Amtrash!
Wow John you bet! Great gift for “the Rooster who has everything.”
This one is interesting, you sort of have to ride it like a horse.
The pink one might stab one in the back with its beak… and all the eggs in the last one would be tough to clean… But sure, I’d vote up the big white one or even the “ride-on.”
Nice find!
They scare the hell outta me. Besides I would need a 10" rough in.
Finally Something for the I love History Buff.
This is reported to be the first organisational chart made for The New York & Erie Railroad In 1854. If you look deeper past the superficially ornate plant-like appearance, you can see that it also depicts a railway map & the company’s organisation chart.
For a blown up version of the map Click Here
(Source: Bored Panda).
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Nice find, Bill. You can get the hi rez version here:
Actually it does!
Needs Nathan K5LAs up front and out back along with some HEP cabling and extra sinclair antennas
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Old hat …ABCDEF 20 yet?
shouldn’t that be old co … err old rooster?