[edspengler]

So I thought this might be a really fun thread - ghostbuster pieces, prop or otherwise seen in their real world use with a little bit of background info about how and where the pieces are used. I’ll start:

I spotted this beauty today, not exact and missing the skirt, but pretty close:


Spotted on the California Capitol Corridor rail line, the car is the “California Car”. Taken from Wikipedia:

”The California Car is the first generation of intercity railcars owned by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and operated by Amtrak under the Amtrak California brand on intercity corridor routes in Northern and Central California. The cars were built in the mid-1990s for the Caltrans Division of Rail by Morrison–Knudsen and the American Passenger Rail Car Company (Amerail). The cars are similar in exterior dimensions to Amtrak's Superliner, but original in design to provide rolling stock suitable for California intercity services up to six hours, with more frequent stops than most other Amtrak routes. All cars were overhauled by Alstom at its Mare Island facility between 2009 and 2012.

[edspengler]

Along the same lines and on the same route. Here is a decal mounted on a Union Pacific Railroad locomotive. Color and message are similar but obviously not exact to the proton pack MB label:

[Thatcrazysquidguy]

This number at my local surplus store looked very familiar.