Charlie:
Thanks for the detailed explanation. My mythical 'Pacific Great
Northern' railroad now has a "reason" running CB&Q silver over it's
railfan lines. :-)
I will visit the BRHS website and view the text there.
Thanks again,
Roger
--- In BRHSlist@egroups.com, "Charlie Vlk" <charlie@k...> wrote:
> Roger-
> Both the Con-Cor and Kato cars ran on the Q until the end of
passenger
> service and many went into Amtrak service.
> Con-Cor chose the California Zephyr cars....with modifications such
as a
> full length smooth letterboard instead of corrugated with name
panels and
> cutouts in the trucks above the trucks to clear swing on curves.
> Also, the dome-observation repeats an error made on the first set
of brass
> CZ cars in that the observation end roof is the same height as the
front end
> of the car instead of being higher like the CZ prototype.
> The genealogy of the cars Kato modeled are explained on our
website. They
> were generally pool service cars (except for the Twin Cities Zephyr
dome car
> and the DZ / NCL pool Slumbercoaches which had more or less fixed
> assignments). They
> didn't show up on the WP as the CZ was a dedicated trainset. The
10-6
> Pullman is the exception...it is from the second order of cars for
the CZ
> and in fact one of our cars carries the CZ name on the
letterboard. The
> dome could pass as a CZ car if you want the Kato model for your
train.
> The two brands of cars look okay together and you can mix and match
them.
> Charlie
> BRHS Member and
> Kato USA R&D
>
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