All, thanks for the answers on which way the domes ran. As always, I get
much more useful information than the original question intended. Thanks
Rick Keil
Ft Campbell, KY
>From: "Dennis C. Henry" <dchenry@gac.edu>
>Reply-To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
>To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [CBQ] Which direction did the domes run?
>Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 20:30:59 -0500
>
>The Burlington did run the KCZ parlor-obs cars backwards in Twin Cities
>Zephyr service, but I believe that the dome seats could be rotated. There
>was a lively series of letters in Trains Magazine on the subject of running
>the cars backwards, about 1966 as I recall. I'm sure some others on this
>list can narrow this down more.
>
>Yes, the IC did awful things to the front windows of Budd dome coaches, but
>only to those they bought in the late 1960's from the Mopac, not the 4-4-4
>dome sleepers from the NP in seasonal service. The Q's dome sleepers for
>the NCL (Nos. 304-305) were not among those the IC leased in the winter.
>
>Dennis Henry
>
>At 07:33 PM 4/11/04, you wrote:
> >The trains were always wyed, turned, or looped at the ends so that dome
> >passengers always faced forward. On the CP and Via trains, the
>passengers
> >rode
> >forward, but entered and exited forward except in the tail car, where the
> >stairway was in the normal position toward the rear of the car. In the
> >ACF-built
> >domes on the UP "City" trains, the floor in the dome was lower or the
> >seats not
> >high enough, so visibility forward was not as good as in a Budd-built
>dome.
> >When the IC leased an NP dome off the North Coast Limited for winter
>Florida
> >business, the IC plated over the front windows, removing all possibility
>of
> >forward vision. The Burlington's and Budd's design was best. Jim N.
> >
>
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