Both Silver Tower and Terrace were used on the TCZ. I
remember riding in one of them once on my one day St.
Paul-Winona trips (Milw. Rd. Skytop down Q dome/obs
back. Great fun on a small budget.
--- "Dennis C. Henry" <dchenry@g...> wrote:
> Hi, Greg,
>
> It's good to be in touch again. Yes, the car in the
> LaCrosse photo is a DZ
> car. I don't think that Amtrak bought or operated
> the original TZ dome
> parlor obs cars, Silver Vista and Silver View, but I
> could be wrong about
> the occasional run part. In the fall of 1973, I
> believe, Mary and I were
> living in Freeport, Il, but were trackside near
> LaGrange on the Q, and saw
> both Silver Vista and View roar west as deadheads on
> the end of Amtrak's
> San Francisco Zephyr. I believe that they had been
> bought be a shortline
> in Oregon. I never road them myself, since I could
> only afford coach, and
> the domes were the same on top.
>
> I just got a big color flyer from Walthers with
> pictures of their new
> Rivarossi UP-prototype dome obs lounge cars, in both
> tail-end and mid-train
> versions. They also have the UP 44-seat coach. So
> much for my inventory
> of our Nos. 26, 36, and 40. Last spring my Walthers
> buyer made a special
> order of six of the No. 40's, bulk pack, and I told
> him that Walthers was
> probably going to copy them in plastic and put me
> out of that business. I
> was right. My commuter car sales have died since
> Walthers announced their
> C&NW bilevel coach and cab cars, and I even ordered
> a pair. Some of the
> coaches arrived in Milwaukee, but sold out before my
> backorder was
> filled. The cab car is expected 12/22, now. I have
> six of the Overland
> brass Q gallery cars from about a decade ago, with
> no interiors. Nice,
> but I had to take off all the end hoses to add
> couplers and make them runable.
>
> How's railroading on the Twin Cities and Western?
>
> Dennis
>
> At 05:56 PM 11/16/02 +0000, you wrote:
> >Hi Dennis,
> >
> >Always nice to hear from you and as usual, you have
> the answer to my
> >question. I rode the North Coast Hiawatha quite a
> bit in the 70's and
> >seemed to recall riding one of these cars. After
> looking at the
> >picture however, it looks like a different car. Is
> this one of the DZ
> >cars?
> >
>
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BRHSlist/files/AMTK33.JPG
> >
> >I took the shot in LaCrosse prior to boarding. We
> rode a round end
> >dome obs down that Amtrak had equipped with a
> piano. I suppose it was
> >one of the old TCZ or CZ cars.
> >
> >Thanks again.
> >
> >Greg
>
> Dennis C. Henry, Owner and General Manager
> Brass Car Sides
> Phone: (507) 931-2784
> 715 South 7th St.
> e-mail:
> dchenry@g...
> St. Peter, MN 56082-1435
> v-mail: (507) 933-7314
>
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