Charlie
By the time the CZ sleepers were built, the Pullman suit was resolved
and the operating arm of that company was being sold to the railroads.
Remember that the streamlined post-war Pullmans also operated on the
Chicago-Twin Cities Black Hawk.
After the ex-1936 Denver Zephyr sets were retired from the Texas
Zephyr and the 1940 equipment restored to the train, the sleepers run
were all streamlined from the Pullman pool. On occasion, one of the
spare sleepers off of the 1956 Denver Zephyr would run on the train,
as documented in videos by Steve Allen Goen.
sjl
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@c...> wrote:
> Perhaps Hol Wagner could shed some light on this subject....
> It is interesting that the first individual Budd coaches went to
the C&S and
> FW&D rather than the parent CB&Q... and that the Texas Zephyr got
Budd built
> cars at all when no other non-articulated trains were built prewar
other
> than the General Pershing/Silver Streak Zephyrs....
> The pending lawsuit with Pullman over the DZ sleepers no doubt
influenced
> the decision to remodel the heavyweights to blend with the Budd
cars....the
> same thing happened with the CB&Q's Zephyr Tower and the RI's
Rocket Tower
> for the Zephyr Rocket. The first CB&Q Budd Pullmans were the
California
> Zephyr cars, so there might be more to the issue than the Pullman
> lawsuit....in fact, when you think of it, Budd Pullmans on the Q
were
> limited to the original CZ, the 1952 cars for the CZ, ARZ, and KCZ,
and the
> 1956 Denver Zephyr.... not many trains required Pullmans on the Q!!!
> Charlie Vlk
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