| 1953 | Ordered by the AT&SF from the Budd Company. |
| 1954 | Delivered in May to the AT&SF. |
| Original car had 57 forward facing seats and 18 lounge seats in the dome and a 8 seat lounge, bar and rail crew dormitory on the lower level. Car was built for and used on the "San Francisco Chief". | |
| 1968 | Car was reassigned to the "Texas Chief". |
| 1971 | AT&SF to cease passenger service with the start of Amtrak. AT&SF and Amtrak have difficulty reaching agreement on value of the Santa Fe fleet of cars. Privately operated Auto-Train acquires car to operate Lorton, VA. to Sanford, FL. Converted to a 51 seat coach on the dome level retaining its 8 seat lounge, bar and Crew dormitory on the lower level. |
| 1981 | Acquired by Delaware Otsego System (NYS&W) at the Auto-Train bankruptcy auction. Moved to Binghamton, N.Y., repainted brown, renumbered NYS&W #504 and used on local rail excursions. |
| 1985 | May, Westours inspects car in Binghamton, N.Y. Makes offer to by it and the six other cars owned by NYS&W. Turned down. Railroad wants to rebuild them and run them in excursion service some day. Indications are that railroad is under going a major expansion to handle "double stack" trains for Sealand. Westours stays in contact as the feeling is the railroad will need to sell the cars to fund its expansion. |
| December, NYS&W calls and wants to sell all seven cars before the end of the year. Car(s) acquired by Westours. | |
| 1986 | Car moved to Morrison-Knudsen, Railroad Division in Boise, Idaho for new wheels, couplers and brake hardware. Car was then moved to Renton, Washington for electrical, mechanical and interior work. Exterior of car stripped of paint, portions polished and portions repainted. |
| 1987 | Rebuilding completed and car shipped from Seattle to Anchorage by barge on June 26. |
| July 5: first Anchorage-Denali-Fairbanks revenue trip. | |
| 1995 | Car shipped to Tillamook for refurbishment, new air conditioning and electrical at end of season. $507,500 spent in refurbishment. |
| 1996 | Refurbished car returns to Alaska |