Re: [CBQ] Texas Zephyr Southbound Amarillo-Dallas Sleeper Summer 1961

["HOL WAGNER" <holpennywagner@msn.com>]

Bill:

Care to respond to this one?

Hol

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From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> on behalf of Stephen Levine via groups.io <sjl_prodigynet=yahoo.com@groups.io>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2024 2:39 PM
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Subject: [CBQ] Texas Zephyr Southbound Amarillo-Dallas Sleeper Summer 1961

 

The May-Oct 1961 Burlington System Time Table shows a 8 Section 5 Double Bedroom sleeper running Amarillo-Dallas southbound only. This, I presume, was during the time that the train was using the ex-DZ trainsets of 1936. If so, as none of ex-DZ sleepers had this exact configuration, though the second articulated sleeper set had one car with 12 sections and the other with 6 bedrooms, 1 drawing room, and 3 compartments, more than enough accommodations to cover what was advertised for this car. And as the through Denver-Dallas sleeper traffic was being handled by the 1938 stand-alone 4 roomette, 4 duplex single room, 4 double room, 1 compartment, 1 drawing room car, the articulated sleeper set described above would have been available.

If a different car was being used, how could it have been coupled to the train, given that the brake hose arrangement of the 1936 was not compatible with other standard passenger cars.

Can anyone here shed light on what was actually going on with the Amarillo-Dallas sleeper in 1961?

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