Charlie,
I rode in a CZ dome coach that was running on the combined eastbound
NCL/EB/Morning Zephyr from St. Paul to Chicago in the last couple of years
before Amtrak. I believe it was October of 1970, when there was no real CZ
anymore, but I can't be sure of the date.
Dennis Henry
At 10:32 PM 12/16/03, you wrote:
>The California Zephyr cars were pretty much confined to the CZ because they
>had special auido wiring that was used for train announcements (the reason
>extra non-CZ cars were confined to just ahead of the obvs to limit the
>"quiet" cars to just the added cars and the last one in the train).
>Towards the end the CZ cars could be seen running in other trains; I don't
>specifically recall any in the DZ but it certainly is a possibility; the CZ
>cars were pooled with the American Royal and Kansas City Zephyrs.
>Charlie VLK
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <wolfee@usa.com>
>To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 9:14 PM
>Subject: [BRHSlist] Charlie Vik, please.
>
>
> > Thanks for helping me out with the RPO car configuration. Would it
> > be prototypically accurate if a Denver Zephyr train had one car
> > lettered "California Zephyr"? Did they swap stuff around sometimes?
> >
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