The start of the new life for the Silver Isle. It was quite a job to get the Amtrak stripping off. Also, Amtrak painted the vestibule doors and
moldings with many, many coats of paint. It took 5 coats of paint remoiver, but it's off. Window area will be painted in the spring.

During removal of all the Amtrak lettering from the sign board and found the outline of the original lettering. The Silver Isle is lettered as it was for the CB&Q.

ex SCL 6624 built 1949

later Amtrak 2476

ex SCL 6628 exSAL 40
built 1949

later Amtrak 2478

 Westwood MA
Rt 128
ex-Pine Grove 2990
The car was renamed on Oct. 13, 1978, at the Amtrak station in St. Albans, Vermont.

Joseph V. MacDonald served on the Amtrak Board of Directors as an appointee of Senator Aiken of Vermont. As an astute statistician his attention was soon attracted to inequities in the operating costs allocated to the "Montrealer" south of Springfield as compared to the segment to the north.

The appointment to the Amttrak board reads:

"By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States under the provisions of the Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970, as amended, I have nominated, and, by and with the advice
and consent of the senate, do appoint Joseph V. MacDonald, of New York a member of the Board of Directors of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation
for a term of two years subject to the conditions prescribed by law.

The White House
July 19, 1974

[signed] Richard Nixon