After the era of the steel open platform commute coaches, and prior
to the Budd Gallery cars, the service was provided by steel
vestibuled 8-wheeled cars painted (as I recall) in a green and brown.
These too had head end power cars, but different than those
eventually used with the Gallery cars. I have always presumed that
these cars had been converted from the open platform cars, but for
some reason never learned how or where (Aurora?). Was this a
different head end system than that finally adopted?
I do not recall the Gallery cars and these green cars ever mixed on
the same train, but perhaps they were.
This brings to memory a midday commute train stopping in Riverside
about 1948-50 with three open platform cars trailing one of the
Zephyr shovel nose units. How the mighty had fallen!
BTW, in the years 1939-52 when I lived in Riverside, and the CB&Q was
an integral part of our everyday lives, I never remember any of these
trains being referred as "Scoots". Perhaps that was a later adoption.
Denny
Denny S. Anspach, MD
Sacramento, California
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