Re: [CBQ] Re: CBQ Train 21

[Bob Webber <cz17@comcast.net>]

Oh, I don't know.  The RGZ regularly operated with 6 domes and had 7 
or 8 cars in the consist.   "Regularly" is open to interpretation, 
but the TCZ was just as "irregular" in those terms.


At 11:36 AM 7/29/2011, you wrote:

>For years either the Morning or Afternoon Zephyr held the No. 
>American speed record for operational scheduled speeds with segments 
>betwwwn Prarie du Chien & LaCrosse, E. Dubuque & Prairie and even 
>Oregon to Savanna being among the top segments. This was often shown 
>in Trains magazine.
>It was also this pair of trains that introduced Dome cars to the 
>world and had a long time slogan of "Where Nature Smiles 300 
>Miles".  No other trains had more domes in a normal consist and as a 
>% of consist, they led all.  Over the yrs 3 train sets were used 
>with the Vista Dome set from "47 to BN being the best known.  All 
>were Budd built cars and ran the gamut of power from articulated to 
>E-5's and finally E-8/9's.
>
>Gerald
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