In the mid 1950s the LT&L did one last hail mary to try and stem the steady erosion of their passenger base by purchasing a quartet of class DL7 passenger locomotive and a large basketful of streamlined Budd cars.

It was a good idea, but not good enough, and passenger numbers kept dropping until the nationalization of passenger service and the subsequent sale of all of the LT&L’s streamliners to VIA.

But, along with the LT&L’s streamliner purchase, the PV&T also bought 6 coaches for the surviving joint trains. 5 of those coaches were sold to Amtrak in 1971, but #X106 had been taken out of service a few years earlier and had been rebuilt into an office car for the Parsons Vale’s official train.

It’s still part of the train, though now it’s painted in the TdM’s “empire builder” orange & dark green paint scheme.