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the rumpus car brunette Diana Newell, secretary to the society editor of the Los Angeles Times, summed it up: «This train is no different from a resort, really.
Luthi made up January's train with a dormitory car behind the engine (to which the hired help could escape), two coaches, a chuckwagon car, four more coaches, a bar car, then the swinging
rumpus car — in the middle of the train — backed up by another bar car, four coaches, another buffet diner, four sleepers and the two baggage cars.