Scott,
I'll see what I can do, The cars are not located where they are easy
to photograph but I'll see what I can do. They are in pretty bad
shape. Most of the windows are gone if I remember correctly.
Rick Briney
Sturgis, SD
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "scottnauer" <archives@n...> wrote:
> Rick,
>
> The three cars are supposed to be:
>
> Silver Beam (1939-DZ)
> Silver Streak (1936-DZ)
> Silver Lining (1936-DZ)
>
> Unless changed, they would be lettered for the Texas Zephyr. I
know
> that Phil and I would be very interested in seeing recent pictures
of
> the cars if anyone has some (or in your case Rick, if you could
get some).
>
> Thanks
> scott
> ---
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> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Briney" <briney@s...> wrote:
> > I'll try to get down to Hill City in the near future and see
which
> > ones are left. I believe there are three of them yet. I was
there a
> > couple weeks ago taking pics of the NE10 waycar and one of the
> > stainless cars is coupled to the waycar. The corner of the car
is in
> > my pic but it doesn't have any lettering that I can ID. From
memory,
> > it seems to me that more than one is lettered Texas Zephyr. I
was
> > told that one or more of the cars (the missing ones) was sold to
an
> > Arab Shiek for parts for his car in Saudi Arabia, but I have no
way
> > to confirm that.
> >
> > It is unfortunate that the previous and current owners are all
> > tourist business and not history minded at all. They have no
idea of
> > the treasures they have stored that are rotting away.
> >
> > Rick Briney
> >
> > --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Gerald A. Edgar" <vje68@h...> wrote:
> > > When the end of the line flooded out a few yrs ago, a
passenger
> > car or
> > > two were isolated at very east end of the spur. Don't recall
car
> > > names but perhaps 1 or 2 of the missing? Gerald
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