Duncan,
What coaches and RPO's do you use, Branchline's or Walthers'?
Ben de Vries, Holland
----- Original Message -----
From: "Duncan Cameron" <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 3:15 AM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Q heavy weight cars
> That's precisely how I'm using my heaveyweights. I've got two of the
> coaches for trains 1 & 44 as well as a couple of RPOs (I think they were
> RPOs rather than baggage cars). I've got another couple of RPOs and a NKP
> baggage car kit that will be part of the Zephyr Rocket. I still want to
> pick up a diner or a lounge car to bring end up the end of the ZR but
> haven't invested in one yet. I'll have as much green as stainless steel
> on
> my 1963 K-line.
> Duncan Cameron
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <kohlj@bellsouth.net>
> To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 1:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [CBQ] Q heavy weight cars
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>> > The Q still
>> > had lots of heavy weight cars in the '60s, how were they used in egular
>> > revenue service?
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>> On the K-line, heavyweight cars quite frequently showed up not only on
>> the
> Zephyr Rocket (usually baggage) but also on the daily St. Louis -
> Burlington
> local (coach & baggage). The latter used to be the old Mark Twain Zephyr.
> We're talking from mid-1950s until passenger service stopped on the K-line
> (mid-late 1960s). Occasionally a steam-boiler equipped GP9 or similar
> pulled the daily, and sometimes a steam-boiler-equipped frieght locomotive
> even pulled the Zephyr Rocket!
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Jan Kohl
>> Castle Graphics
>> www.castlegraphics.com
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