Dennis-
Thanks! Your information fills in the other half of a interesting bit of
history.... I remember seeing the NP dome sleepers painted in IC colors on
the Southwind from the window of double deck cars. It is nice to know "the
rest of the story" as Paul Harvey would say.
Charlie Vlk
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis C. Henry [mailto:dchenry@g...]
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 10:24 AM
> To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [BRHSlist] North Coast Limited Consists
>
>
> At 09:29 AM 5/7/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >Dennis-
> >Ah yes, but then what was the ownership and livery of the
> ex-IC cars while
> >they were running on the NCL?
> >Charlie Vlk
>
> Hi, Charlie,
>
> My best information I have is that ownership was still IC and
> that the
> 11-bedroom cars were painted in standard NCL two-tone green in the
> summers. You'll recall that the NP 4-4-4 Budd dome sleepers
> that went to
> City of Miami service in the several winters got painted in
> IC colors. The
> accounting involved trading car days, with each road paying
> for one repaint
> job.
>
> If others on the list have further details or better
> information, let's
> share it.
>
> By 1968, the NCL included a variety of foreign-road sleepers
> in the summer,
> especially SP, as my "Minnesota Railroad Memories" video tape
> illustrates. On the other hand, the Mainstreeter was usually
> pure NP, with
> one 8-6-3-1 sleeper or 28-8 slumbercoach, since management
> was trying to
> get rid of that train, and tours were all put on 25 & 26.
> Employee passes
> started being honored on 25 & 26 in the late 60's to further
> erode the need
> for 1 & 2.
>
> Dennis
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