Lovert R. Smith III has little in common with Harold S. "Mike" Vanderbilt other than that both have owned the same private railroad car, known today as New York Central 3. Delivered in 1928 to the great-grandson of the Commodore, the car served as the Vanderbilt family station wagon until the 1950s, when a corporate raider, Robert Young, got hold of the New York Central and forced Mike out of his corner office, not to mention his rolling stock. Without the Vanderbilts, the Central would no longer be considered a classy railroad company, or "flash road."rnThe car stayed with the company, ferrying the likes of Adlai Stevenson on his presidential campaign. When the Pennsylvania Railroad merged with the Central, the car was swept into the executive railcar pool. It stayed there as bankruptcy cascaded the Penn Central into Conrail. Abandoned on a siding in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Conrail 1 was sold and eventually ended up in a railroad repair yard in Florida, from which Lovett Smith purchased it in 1992 for $240,000.
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机译：Lovert R. Smith III与Harold S.“ Mike” Vanderbilt几乎没有共同点，只是他们拥有同一辆私人有轨电车，今天称为纽约中央三号。1928年交付给Commodore的曾孙，这辆汽车一直是范德比尔特（Vanderbilt）家庭旅行车，直到1950年代，当时公司攻略者罗伯特·扬（Robert Young）掌握了纽约中央车站，并迫使迈克离开他的角落办公室，更不用说他的机车车辆了。没有范德比尔特人，中央车站将不再被视为一流的铁路公司或“闪光之路”。这辆车留在该公司中，在阿德莱·史蒂文森（Adlai Stevenson）的总统竞选中如愿以偿。宾夕法尼亚铁路与中央铁路合并后，汽车被冲入了行政铁路车厢。当破产将宾州中央大学级联成Conrail时，它就呆在那里。 Conrail 1被遗弃在宾夕法尼亚州阿尔图纳（Altoona）的壁板上，最终被出售给佛罗里达州的一家铁路修理厂，洛维特·史密斯（Lovett Smith）于1992年以24万美元的价格从中购得。
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