Marshall Thayer comments-
The similiar-in-appearence car, "The Round Up", was an ordinary
heavyweight, >gussied up with thermopane windows and Budd stainless
sheathing, but still >carried (and needed) the original 6-wheel
trucks (the key way to tell them >apart if your photograph doesn't
show the name plate clearly).
Another way to tell the difference is that the Round-Up has a very
awkward straight elevated roof that did not match the roof lines of
any other modern "streamlined" cars (presumably because the
Burlington took the easy way by sheathing the high monitor roof
structure as it was, rather than lowering and reshaping the roof to
the standard AAR (?) profile). I always felt that this unfortunate
visual feature made this car somewhat ugly.
Denny
Denny S. Anspach, MD
Sacramento, California
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