This sleeping car served overnight passengers traveling east coast routes between Miami and New York City.

It was built by the Budd Company in August 1949 for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. It is a 10-6 sleeper, with ten roomettes for singles and six double bedrooms. It became part of Amtrak in 1971 when that company took over U.S. passenger operations.

After it was retired in 1986, it was purchased by a museum member who named it "Adiel Morris" in honor of his father, a former Rock Island Railroad conductor. He brought it to the museum in 1992, restored it, then sold it in 2018. The new owner renamed it back to its original "West Palm Beach."

During its active years, this sleeper saw service on the Seaboard′s "Silver Meteor" passenger train running between New York and Florida. It would depart Penn Station in New York City pulled by Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 locomotives to Washington Union Station, transfer to the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad for the trip to Richmond′s Main Street Station, then transfer to the Seaboard for the remainder of the trip to Miami. (Beginning in 1959, the Seaboard used Richmond′s Broad Street Station for its passenger operations instead.)

Seaboard ordered this car in March 1946 as one of six sleepers to be built by the Budd Company in lot number 9662-026, per Pullman plan 9503. Named "West Palm Beach" and numbered SAL 42, it was delivered in August 1949. After the Seaboard merged with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1967, the car became Seaboard Coast Line number 6627. In 1971 it became Amtrak number 2704, still named "West Palm Beach," and its area of travel expanded to include New Orleans. When Amtrak began converting its fleet to head-end power (HEP), this car was assigned on paper as number 2744 but was never reconfigured to that newer power source.

Stored at Amtrak′s facility in Beech Grove, Indiana, the car was purchased in 1992 by museum past president Russ Lassuy. He removed the Amtrak red and blue stripes, and renamed it for his father, Adiel Morris Lassuy, who passed away in January 1991. The Southern Pacific Railroad delivered it to the museum′s temporary storage track near Pecos Road, then after the Armstrong Park switch was installed in 1993, the museum′s Plymouth locomotive moved it onto the museum grounds at Erie Street in 1994.

Russ repainted it in Rock Island’s "Golden State" red and silver streamliner colors in honor of his father, and the car occasionally attended Chandler′s Doo Dah Days. In 2006 it moved with the rest of the fleet to the museum′s current Tumbleweed Park location on Ryan Road. In October 2018, museum member James Carpi purchased the car from Russ, and later transferred it to its current owner.

The Seaboard Air Line/Seaboard Coast Line Railroad served the east coast from Florida to Virginia. It merged with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in 1983 to form the Seaboard System "Family Lines," and is now part of CSX Corporation.

	5/3/2023 - Photo of car renamed back to Seaboard "West Palm Beach".
	5/2003 - Photo of car as "Adiel Morris".

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