Looks like I forgot about the 6-5 Pullman. I will pick one up after they
are released. I think the 3 cars I have on preorder are enough "strain" on
my wife's good will.
Now if we can only get the signature blunt end obs produced.........
Rick Keil
P.S. Charlie, not looking to start another thread, I am very thankful that
we ARE getting high quality, Q specific, cars built at a reasonable price.
>From: Aeolus3@aol.com
>Reply-To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
>To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [CBQ] BLI CZ Cars
>Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:40:31 EST
>
>
>Charlie and List,
>
>The Twin City Zephyr Diners, Silver Salver and Silver Feast, and the CZ
>Diners are the only ones with the roof antennas. The remaining Burlington
>Diners
>built for the Kansas City Zephyr and the Denver Zephyr, Silver Chef and
>Silver
>Tureen, and the extra diner Silver Cuisine lacked the roof antennas. To be
>honest I'm not really sure which car is the extra diner, built in 1952 were
>Silver
>Inn(2nd), Silver Manor, and Silver Cuisine. According to Randall's From
>Zephyr to Amtrak Silver Manor was the extra diner.
>
>The other CZ cars that could be used as prototype with all the letter
>boards
>in place would be the 6-5 Pullmans, Silver Swan and Silver Pelican built
>for
>the 1956 DZ. One would replace the railroad letters in the small board with
>the
>word "Pullman".
>
>BLI producing the CZ cars with the letter boards as an extra glue on piece
>would be a great idea! Again if this is the case people could also model
>the
>later Rio Grande Zephyr as the large letter boards were removed. Hint Hint,
>then
>a natural add on would be the Rio Grande's Prospector Baggage/RPO car that
>the
>Grande bought from the C&O.
>
>Once again it seems as the California Zephyr is the "Most Talked About
>Train".
>
>Loren Johnson
>
>
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>
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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