SUSITNA CAR # : 507
| 1952 | Ordered by the AT&SF from the Budd Company. |
| 1954 | Delivered between January and March to the AT&SF. |
| Original car had 57 forward facing seats and 18 lounge seats in the dome and a 28 seat lounge, bar and traveling nurse's station on the lower level. Car was used for service on AT&SF's El Capitan, Chicagoan, and Kansas Cityan. | |
| 1956 | Car was reassigned to the Chief when the El Capitan was reequipped with new "high level" cars. |
| 1968 | Chief was discontinued and the car was assigned to the Texas Chief before being reassigned to the San Francisco 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 52 seat lounge with piano bar on the dome level and a 24 seat lounge on the lower level. Nurses' room converted to restrooms. |
| 1981 | Acquired by a Roy Thorpe at the Auto-Train bankruptcy auction. Moved to Pompano Beach, FL. for storage. |
| 1986 | October, acquisition attempted by Westours. Turned down. |
| 1987 | June, Roy Thorpe calls and offers to sell car to Westours because he wants it to see it rebuilt properly and likes what we are doing with the cars. Car purchased and moved to Renton, Washington and then Tillamook, Oregon for storage pending rebuild. |
| 1988 | September, work starts on rebuilding car for 1989 season. Rebuild Cost is $580,000 not including the cost of the car shell. |
| 1989 | May 8 , car leaves Tillamook by rail to Seattle and then, on May 12, by rail barge to Seward/Anchorage. |
| May 26 car leaves on first Anchorage-Denali-Fairbanks trip. | |
| 1994 | Car shipped to Tillamook for refurbishment, new air conditioning and electrical at end of season. $474,000 spent in refurbishment. |
| 1995 | Refurbished car returns to Alaska. |