[CBQ] Re: Observation Cars on TCZ

["domelinerdude" <domelinerdude@yahoo.com>]

Sounds like great experiences.  I have seen photos of an ex-KCZ at the head of 
the TCZ running forward, as you describe. 

Backward dome parlors on the front of the TCZ perhaps saved the Q charges for 
wye-ing the train in the Twin Cities? 

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "CY" <ctsvobodny@...> wrote:
>
> >I used to takem the train St. Paul to Winona and return on Saturdays several 
> >times a year.    Down on the Hiawatha Sky-top and back on the TC Zephyr 
> >always on the obs.ar.   On one occasion the return Zephyr had a square end 
> >KCZ obs.   It was properly pointed but on the headend, very weird.   All 
> >seats were facing the front but the obs. windows were against the end of the 
> >coach behind.  Other trips had the TCZ obs. backward on the headend.    One 
> >of my prize ett's was gotten from a Milw. Rd. cndr. southbound on the 
> >Hiawatha.   It is the BN May 10, 1968 ett that never was.   The joint MR/BN 
> >St. Paul to St. Croix timetable.   They went into effect at 12:01AM and the 
> >judge signed the injunction about 8:30AM stopping the BN merger.   The 
> >merger finally came to pass on March 3, 1970, and the green monster was born.
>




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