I am looking on Page 15 of Jeff Wilson's book Burlington Route across the
Heartland. It shows a picture of the DZ in August of 1955 in the Zephyr Pit and
one can see the rear of the mail-power car, the baggage-lounge car and the
dinette-coach. I cannot make out any lettering on the 1st two cars, but I can
vaguely see the letterboard lettering on dinette-coach. It is very hard to read,
but I think I can make out the word DENVER and a second word as well, which
would
support the train being lettered "DENVER ZEPHYR" at that time.
sjl
"Stephen J. Levine" wrote:
> Mike
>
> The plot thickens.
>
> My guess is that, at one time or another, the letterboards carried "Pullman",
> "Denver Zephyr" and "Burlington".
>
> Mike, very appreciative
> sjl
>
> Mike Spoor wrote:
>
> > Stephen, Rich and the List:
> >
> > I have had a chance to dig around this weekend and I will inlcude all of
> > this topic in the next ZEPHYR. I have the photos to help answer the
> > question. I have a shot of Silver Moon dated 10-9-49 at the Zephyr Pit.
> > The car clearly carries the name DENVER ZEPHYR across the letterboard.
> > Silver Moon was the 4-4-1-1-4 sleeper in the 1936 DZ consist. But, guess
> > what, I have another shot at the Zephyr Pit that is undated and shows
> > Silver Moon with the word PULLMAN across the letterboard.
> >
> > I believe that Rich is right on target. Prior to the breakup of the
> > Pullman company, the sleepers most likely carried PULLMAN on the
> > letterboard. After the breakup, they were repainted to say DENVER ZEPHYR.
> > I will have more in the ZEPHYR.
> >
> > I hope this helps. Mike
> >
> > On Sat, 26 May 2001 09:48:20 EDT rgortowski@a... writes:
> > >Stephen,
> > >
> > >I had not given this one much thought yet (as the 1936 Shoreham Shops
> > >cars
> > >are STILL not out!!). I would agree that the letterboards would
> > >probably be
> > >"Pullman" on the sleepers as delivered. Did the sleeper letterboards
> > >change
> > >to "Burlington" after the 1948 breakup of the Pullman company and the
> > >sale of
> > >the Pullman sleepers to the railroads? If so, when?
> > >
> > >This is something I've never thought about...
> > >
> > >Rich
> > >
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