Jim,
BNSF has a fairly large fleet of passenger equipment. Is used
for special trains and as mobile offices. There is a school of
thought in Railroad Marketing that one way to impress a
Customer on the value of transportation services is to hold a
meeting in an old passenger car. This fleet is based at Topeka
KS and is moved around the Railroad based on a reservation
and authority system. I would say that most of the time you
see these cars on a freight train they are not occupied.
Would be an interesting exercise to make up a index but not
today.
Russ
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From: "Jim" <jdavid1251@yahoo.com>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 26 July, 2005 13:13
Subject: [CBQ] Burlington passenger cars
>A couple of weeks ago, I took my daughter to watch trains at
> Chillicothe, IL. At the end of a freight train traveling east
> through Chillicothe, I was surprised to see several passenger cars
> clearly marked "Burlington Northern Santa Fe." (Please see photo
> section - I apologize for the rather poor quality of the photos.)
> Since everyone in this group has a far greater knowledge of the
> Burlington Route than I do, can you identify some of these passenger
> cars, and possibly surmise where they were headed? Thank you.
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> Jim
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