Re: [BRHSlist] Passenger Cars .... add one

["John Lewis" <CBQJohn@m...>]

Add one to the list of stainless steel cars that didn't carry the 'Silver' 
prefix...
Mr. Murphy's Office Car 'Burlington' is one...it still soldiers on today as 
the BNSF Mississippi River.
Regards,
John Lewis



> From: Aeolus3@a...
> Reply-To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
> To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Passenger Cars
> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:46:16 EDT
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> Yes...
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> The "Silver" prefix started with the first Denver Zephyr. All the stainless
> steel equipment built after that carried the Silver prefix with two
> exceptions, the baggage cars Argo and Olympus. The third stainless steel
> baggage car built carried the name Silver Treasure. I have no idea why Argo
> and Olympus didn't carry the SIlver previx other than the fact they were
> ordered for the Nebraska Zephyr equipment and the names Argo and Olympus
> match the car names of the Nebraska Zephyr, origionally the second Twin
> Zephyrs. Also all the cars built for the Cal Zephyr carried the Silver 
> prefix
> including Silver Rapids owned by the Pennsy. Silver Rapids kept her name 
> even
> into Amtrak Service.
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> Also the Burlington owned cars in the NP and GN trains didn't carry the
> Silver prefix as well as the ex C&NW Coaches.
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