Moving day came for the Silver Top. Here it was being placed on a low boy to be trucked to a temporary storage space in a rail yard at Chehalis, Washington. For the last 20 years the car had been used as vendor space at a shopping village/mall in Bothell, Washington. The Peninsular Railway and Lumbermen's Museum (a 501 (C) 3 non-profit) was granted the former CB&Q Passenger Car 342. They plan to restore the car and eventually add it to a railroad excursion in Shelton, Washington. Some additional history of the Silver Top: Car originally built in 1937 as Fort Worth and Denver 52 seat coach #403 Silver Top. It was reconfigured into a coach/dinette around 1940. The car was again reconfigured into a snack bar coach in 1969 and renumbered Chicago Burlington and Quincy #342. After retirement, the car was modified for use at Andy's Tukwila Station restaurant along with several other rail cars. Andy's closed in 1996, and the car subsequently was moved to the Country Village location.
