Great Northern Tourist Car which was probably GN #6534(?). It was sold to Alaska Engineering Commission in 1922 and became Sleeping car "Talkeetna" with a 20 passenger capacity. It was rebuilt in 1927 to Parlor Car "Tanana" with a 25 passenger capacity. In 1931 it was numbered #2 (2nd # 2) and retained the name "Tanana"  as a Parlor Car with a 25 passenger capacity. In May or June 1949 it was apparently converted to Bunk car # X-367  (records are a little muddled here). Number X-367 was removed from the roster in approximately 1953 and presumed scrapped.

Tracing all of the early Alaska Railroad equipment has its challenges because they did renumber and/or rebuild a lot of stuff. The records are fragmentary and sometimes have conflicting information.   In studying this for over forty years I have found that one has to be suspect of the Alaska Railroad's own records/paperwork, especially pre-WW2, as there are errors in some of it.  If it's the only info, we have to go with it until proven or disproved by other sources or photos. -- Don Marenzi

I asked Don how the information can be so confusing/conflicting. His answer:

Part of the reason the ARR stuff in particular is confusing is:

When the government took over they hired a lot of new people. Those people were in Alaska, Seattle, Washington D.C. Many didn't know (in the detail we expect) what they were documenting. Some level of politics and bureaucracy was involved. Records were kept in multiple places, for different purposes. Some of what they recorded was from verbal accounts . The Alaska Railroad bought a lot of equipment through broker firms agents. (That's a can of worms in itself). What the folks in Anchorage wanted didn't always happen...Washington did things different and more...We don't have the extent of photographic coverage to confirm or deny stuff (like Santa Fe or New York Central fans might have).