Passenger Equipment Cars

Adopted 1910; Revised 1936 and periodically to date of last revision; 1979.

A passenger train car is defined as a car of suitable construction, equipped to operate in passenger trains, its characteristics to include:

1. All steel, steel underframe or equivalent construction;
2. Passenger type air brake equipment, or of type to function with other passenger car brakes;
3. Trucks suitable for satisfactory operation in passenger train service;
4. Train line connections for signaling, heating, power, or other function s as required for the train assignment;

And be in accordance with definitions and designating letters fir general passenger train service as follows:

• PB – A car constructed for passenger train service and equipped to handle baggage, express, mail merchandise or similar products.
• PD – Car equipped for food or beverage service.
• PA – Car equipped to handle passengers.
• PS – Company service car, including office cars, instruction cars, display cars, etc.WHere car serves two purposes, as coach and baggage, combine symbols as “PAB”.

Source: Vol.106, No. 4, April 1991 ORER.