By Aaron Isaacs, HRA editor
There are 80 passenger car restorations currently underway. Of these, 23 are wood cars, 35 are steel heavyweights and 22 are streamlined lightweights. There are 4 baggage or other headend cars, 45 coaches, 7 sleepers, 8 diners, 8 lounges and 6 business cars. Among them are 3 dome cars, including the first two built from coaches by the Burlington. There is one chapel car and one hospital car. The Cumbres & Toltec are restoring a 4-car 1890’s narrow gauge train.
| State/Province | Museum | Passenger Car |
| AB | Alberta Railway Museum | Northern Alberts heavyweight business car Dunvegan |
| AL | Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum | Louisville & Nashville heavyweight club car 3050 Alabama Club |
| AZ | Arizona Railway Museum | Santa Fe lightweight coach 3079 Diablo Canyon |
| CA | Northwestern Pacific Railroad Historical Society | Northwestern Pacific wood coach 29 |
| CA | Northwestern Pacific Railroad Historical Society | Northwestern Pacific wood baggage car 605 |
| CA | Orange Empire Railway Museum | Santa Fe RPO heavyweight 60 |
| CA | Niles Canyon Railway | Yosemite Valley wood observation 330 |
| CA | Niles Canyon Railway | Great Northern lightweight ranch car 1242 Hidden Lake |
| CA | Placerville & Sacramento Valley | Southern Pacific Harriman suburban coach 2110 |
| CA | Travel Town | Union Pacific heavyweight diner 369 |
| CA | Travel Town | Pullman sleeper lightweight Rose Bowl |
| CA | Travel Town | Pullman sleeper lightweight Hunters Point |
| CA | Travel Town | Union Pacific lightweight lounge car Little Nugget |
| CA | Western Pacific Railroad Museum | Western Pacific California Zephyr dome coach 832 |
| CO | Moffat Road Railroad Museum | Central Vermont wood coach 382 |
| CO | Ridgway Railroad Museum | Rio Grande narrow gauge business car C |
| CO, NM | Cumbres & Toltec | Rio Grande narrow gauge tourist sleeper 470 |
| CO, NM | Cumbres & Toltec | Rio Grande narrow gauge coach 292 |
| CO, NM | Cumbres & Toltec | Rio Grande narrow gauge coach 256 |
| CO, NM | Cumbres & Toltec | Rio Grande narrow gauge RPO 65 |
| CO, NM | Cumbres & Toltec | Rio Grande narrow gauge pay car F |
| CT | Railroad Museum of New England | Rutland combine wood 260 |
| CT | Railroad Museum of New England | Canadian National heavyweight coach 5805 |
| CT | Danbury Railroad Museum | Reading heavyweight coach 1547 |
| GA | Georgia State Railroad Museum | Southern heavyweight Jim Crow coach 1207 |
| HI | Hawaiian Railway Society | Oahu wood coach 57 |
| IL | Illinois Railway Museum | Milwaukee Road lightweight coach 649 |
| IL | Illinois Railway Museum | Heavyweight heavyweight lounge car Mount Harvard |
| IL | Illinois Railway Museum | Illinois Central lightweight coach 3345 |
| IL | Illinois Railway Museum | Pullman sleeper heavyweight John McLoughlin |
| IL | Illinois Railway Museum | Green Bay & Western heavyweight mixed train coach 109 |
| IL | Illinois Railway Museum | Rock Island commuter coach 2524 |
| IL | Illinois Railway Museum | Santa Fe heavyweight combine 2544 |
| IL | Monticello Railway Museum | Wabash heavyweight office car 6 |
| IL | Monticello Railway Museum | Illinois Central lightweight diner 4112 |
| IL | Monticello Railway Museum | Rock Island commuter coach 2541 |
| IN | Whitewater Valley Railroad | Chicago & North Western commuter combine 7718 |
| KS | Great Plains Transportation Museum | Santa Fe drovers car D938 |
| MD | Walkersville Southern | Southern Pacific heavyweight solarium business car Meadowlark |
| MD | Western Maryland Scenic | Western Maryland heavyweight business car 204 |
| ME | Boothbay Railway Village | Bridgeton & Saco River RPO/combine 11 |
| ME | Wiscasset Waterville & Farmington Railroad Museum | Replica 2-foot gauge wood coach 9 |
| ME | Maine Narrow Gauge Museum | Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes 2-foot gauge wood coach 19 |
| MI | Southern Michigan Railroad | New York Central demotored MU car 4331 |
| MN | Lake Superior Railroad Museum | Northern Pacific lightweight coach 517 |
| MN | Minnesota Transportation Museum | Great Northern modernized 2-foot gauge wood parlor car 1084 Twin Ports |
| MN | Minnesota Transportation Museum | Burlington dome car 4709 |
| MO | Museum of Transportation | Aerotrain |
| NC | North Carolina Transportation Museum | Southern 2-foot gauge wood Jim Crow coach 1211 |
| NC | North Carolina Transportation Museum | East Tennessee & Western North Carolina narrow gauge triple combine 15 |
| NC | Southeastern Narrow Gauge Museum | West Virginia Midland narrow gauge baggage car 1 |
| NJ | Whippany Railroad Museum | Lackawanna MU club car 3454 |
| NY | Leatherstocking Railway Historical Society | Delaware & Hudson 2-foot gauge wood coach 233 |
| NY | Railroad Museum of Long Island | Long Island double decker commuter 200 |
| NY | Oyster Bay Railroad Museum | Long Island “Ping pong” coach 7433 |
| OH | Dennison Railroad Museum | Heavyweight Pullman |
| OH | Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum | Burlington original dome coach Silver Dome |
| OH | Hocking Valley Scenic | Canadian Pacific coach |
| ON | Toronto Railway Museum | Canadian Pacific heavyweight solarium lounge Cape Race |
| PA | Friends of the East Broad Top | East Broad Top narrow gauge combine/RPO 16 |
| PA | Erie Lackawanna Dining car Preservation Society | Erie diner heavyweight 741 |
| PA | Colebrookdale Railroad | Maine Central heavyweight coach |
| PA | Oil Creek & Titusville | New York Central lightweight coach 2900 |
| PA | Stewartstown | Reading coach commuter 1158 |
| SC | Landrum Rail & History Museum | Southern lightweight sleeper Pacolet River |
| TN | Southern Appalachia Railroad Museum | Southern lightweight coach Fort McPherson |
| TN | Watauga Valley Railroad Historical Society | Clinchfield heavyweight business car 100 |
| TN | Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum | Baltimore & Ohio heavyweight office car 98 |
| TN | Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum | Southern lightweight coach 832 |
| TN | Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum | Louisville & Nashville lightweight diner 2728 Cross Keys |
| TN | Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum | Illinois Central sleeper/lounge General Beauregard |
| TX | San Antonio Railroad Heritage Museum | St. Louis Southwestern heavyweight business car 1 Dixie |
| TX | Gulf Coast Railroad Museum | Southern Pacific lightweight diner 10212 |
| VA | Old Dominion Chapter, NRHS | Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac heavyweight coach 706 |
| WA | Northwest Railway Museum | Wood Chapel car 5 Prince of Peace |
| WA | Northwest Railway Museum | Spokane Portland & Seattle wood coach 213 |
| WI | Mid-Continent Railway Museum | Chicago & North Western narrow gauge combine 1099 |
| WI | Mid-Continent Railway Museum | Duluth South Shore & Atlantic wood sleeper Duluth |
| WI | Mid-Continent Railway Museum | East Jordan & Southern wood combine 2 |
| WI | National Railroad Museum | Chicago & North Western heavyweight hospital service car Joseph Lister |
| WI | National Railroad Museum | Burlingtonlightweight diner/lounge Silver Spirit |
| WI | Wisconsin Great Northern | Mark Twain Zephyr |
| WY | High Plains Railroad Preservation | Colorado & Southern wood coach 57 |