Mike Sppor's CB&Q In Colour #3 indicates the car was a DO-2 heavyweight.
Does this alter anything?
Duncan
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From: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: [CBQ] turning passenger cars
> The car wouldn't have to be turned because of access to the diner as
> previous posts have indicated, but if the car was a Q lightweight it would
> have to be turned... the Q diner lounges were the
dining-lounge-observation
> cars 300 Silver Spirit 301 Silver Star 302 Silver Hours and 303
> Silver Fountain.
> IIRC the Q did have some heavyweight diners modified with lounges and of
> course the cars might have been RI.
> Charlie Vlk
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> From: "Duncan Cameron" <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
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> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 7:11 AM
> Subject: [CBQ] turning passenger cars
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> > Hi everyone. Operational question. In the last few years of the Zephyr
> > Rocket, there was a diner-lounge on the rear of the train between St.
> > Louis and Burlington (later cut back to West Quincy). I'm guessing
> > (although I don't really know the interior layout of these cars) that it
> > would need to be turned at either end so that the dining area was
> > connected to the rest of the train and the kitchen was at the rear. Is
> > this the case? And would they use a turntable for turning cars like
this
> > (or was there a wye handy at both ends)? Any comments gratefully
> > received.
> > Duncan Cameron
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