The routes I noted yesterday were specifically for the tests only
-these were the tests when it was in company with the GN & AT&SF cars.
At 11:16 AM 12/21/2006, Gerald A. Edgar wrote:
>There was a lengthy discussion of this car a year or so back. One
>question was where it operated. I saw one in service once. I was
>traveling from LaCrosse to E. Dbq on a Sunday and it was in the
>consist right behind the head-end cars. As was my usual habit after
>boarding, I walked the length of the Afternoon Zephyr and that's when
>I encountered it. The unique feature experience-wise was the
>transition from a Budd diaphram into S. Pendulum which had much less
>motion. Visually of course the visual highlight was the oval windows
>(which reminded me of the Milwaukee). I did not ride in S. Pendulam
>that day though for an obvious reason - it had no dome! Gerald
>
>PS - Bob commented that when being tested it operated on a couple
>routes one being Chicago-Savannah. I'd guess on occasion though,
>especially summers on a Sunday, it like other 'extra' equipment might
>very well have gone to LaX or even Twin Cities. Anyway it would
>explain why I 'found' it somewhere between LaX & Stoddard.
>
>
Bob Webber
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