Don't forget SP. There were a lot of theirs too.
Gordon
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From: <Aeolus3@aol.com>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 2:07 AM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Fw: Foreign Sleepers CZ
> Silver Rapids was a CZ car..... part of the CZ Pool. Foreign Sleepers I've
> seen shots of in the CZ consist, NYC, PRR, IC, SP, UP, C&O, GN (although
> not
> enough of the train to see if it was a GN Pullman in the CZ or a CZ 10-6
> in a GN
> consist), and ACL.
>
> Other than CN or CP the only foreign Pullmans I wouldn't expect to find in
> a
> CZ consist would be Amtrak! :-)
>
> The CZ in one instants in 1959, went west of Plano IL with a Suburban
> power
> car and 3 Gallery cars. Reason being the original west bound CZ that day
> hit a
> 1957 Ford Convertible at Little Rock Road on the west side of Plano. They
> got
> 17 stopped about a mile west of that location just east of Sandy Bluff
> Road
> grade crossing which is on the east side of Sandwich IL, well today both
> roads
> are part of Plano and Sandwich back then they were country roads crossing
> the
> Q, right along US Route 34. It appears the make up CZ consist, the Q took
> that
> day's 18 from the dinning car back to the observation.
>
> I told Dave Lotz when his layout is up and running down there in the
> little
> ole south, I'm going to run the "make up" CZ. The good thing is I won't
> have
> numbers of flat wheels since his layout's east end is Galesburg!
>
> Loren Johnson
>
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