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[BRHSlist] Silver Dome: Was Dome Offset to the Front or Back?

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Subject: [BRHSlist] Silver Dome: Was Dome Offset to the Front or Back?
From: "cbq_bill" <cbq_bill@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 05:44:13 -0000
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I picked up a CB&Q brochure on the first vista dome car, Silver Dome, 
at a train show.  The illustration indicates that the dome was offset 
toward the back of the car.  However, most photos and diagrams on the 
CB&Q's Budd-produced vista dome cars indicate that the domes were 
offset toward the front (the dome/observation/sleeper cars for the CZ 
and DZ were exceptions with the domes toward the back of the car in 
order to use the forward car space for bedrooms).

Toward which end of the car was Silver Dome's vista dome offset?  
Were the seats ever reversed in the car to effectively reverse the 
front and back ends?  Was Silver Castle set up the same way.  

Another question about the Zephyr cars (including flat-tops cars) in 
general:  were the vestibles usually at the rear or front end of the 
car?   

Thanks in advance.

Bill


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