Hi Bill,
Sorry for the delayed reply, but "train" time has been scarce lately.
The CZ F3's also saw service on the Exposition Flyer prior to the CZ and I
believe later on the Kansas City Zephyr.
I'll copy this reply to the CBQ list on Yahoo Groups to get more feedback
and more "exact" answers.
Dave Lotz
BRHS Archives
-----Original Message-----
From: William E. Laughlin [mailto:weldoc@juno.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 1:34 PM
To: Dave_Lotz@email.msn.com
Subject: clarification
I looked in my BRHS archives last night and found the following, taken
from the "Burlington Bulletin", issue no. 4, apr. 1982:
"The first Burlington F3's arrived in Oct. 1947 as four-unit sets
116-121. These were delivered as Phase II F3's (F2's and Phase I F3's
being identical) with high fan shrouds, high headlights, and no Mars
light in the nose door, large angled number boards, and two portholes
with screening covering the four square vent openings between the
portholes. They were also equipped with "passenger-style" straight pilots
and with coupler covers.
Sets 160 and 161 were delivered the next month, in Nov. 1947. These were
Phase II F3's but came as three-unit A/B/A sets, like the FT/2 sets which
preceded them numerically.
A THIRD BATCH of Phase II F3's, also A/B/A sets, was purchased at the
same time, but these were intended for PASSENGER SERVICE ON THE NEW
CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR. (my emphasis) Numbered 9960-9962, they were delivered
in the passenger paint scheme of silver (aluminum paint) with black
striping and lettering. They were the only F-units on the system with
steam generators (in both the A- and B-units) and the only ones lacking
dynamic brakes. After they were bumped from the Zephyr by E-units in the
early Fifties, they were re-geared for freight service in 1955 and
eventually repainted in the freight scheme (white with broad red side
stripes and the red "mouth" banner above the pilot--my add'l info there.)
They kept their passenger numbers to the end, however." (From "The
Graybacks" by Jim Sandrin, Burlington Bulletin issue no. 4, 4-82).
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What I don't know is whether they served 100% of their passenger miles on
the CALIFORNIA Zephyr, as opposed to being "demoted" to one of the other
Zephyr trains, before their being removed from passenger service.
Do you know for sure ?
Would you pass this on to someone else would could verify one way or the
other, should you not know ?
Thanks,
Bill Laughlin
Wichita, KS
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