Appreciative.
Of course, I miss those DZ rides. I looked forward to them every summer.
Although I am very versed in the railroad history of the latter half of the
20th century, a part of me still remains puzzled as to where those trains went.
At the time, they seemed forever, even though the New York Central had
combined several of its premier trains into 1, the 20th Century/Commodore
Vanderbilt, a year and a half after the new DZ went into service.
I have ridden the Silver Repose on the Tennessee Central Railway Museum's
train in Nashville in recent years and it is showing its age. However, I can
easily remember a time I was riding in the car in 1967, just after graduating
high school, lying in my single slumbercoach bed as we raced thru Nebraska,
calculating that the car had already traveled more than a million miles since
having been placed in service 10 1/2 years previously. It seemed as much the
present then as it does now.
Again, thanks for your kind words.
sjl
Hubert Hanrahan <domelinerdude@yahoo.com> wrote:
Stephen,
Thank you for your recollections of the DZ. It is always interesting
to hear your first hand stories.
Hubert Hanrahan
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen J. Levine" <sjl@...> wrote:
>
> When I looked at the Silver Chair on #1, on Sept. 7, 1968, on what
was probably her first run after refurbishing, the snack bar was in
the back of the car with the seats facing forward. The car,
incidentally, still smelled of fresh paint. The #1 I was on was the
first to run without the Chuckwagon (other than when the car was in
the shop) and with the observation-lounge car midtrain behind the
diner. When I boarded the train at Union Station, a we-are-pleased-
to-announce flyer describing the Chuckwagon's replacement with the
snack bar awaited me on the seat of my room in the Silver Slumber.
The next morning, passengers who had seen #10 as it passed in Omaha
reported that it still had the Obs at the end of the train,
indicating that ours was probably the first run with the snack car.
The car was located immediately ahead of the diner.
>
> The discrepancy between my observations and those of Phil Stepek
are most likely due to coach seats in the car being rotating seats.
>
> sjl
>
> GLEN HAUG <glenehaug@...> wrote:
> Just the information I was looking for! Thanks Hubert
and Phil.
>
> Glen Haug
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Phil Stepek<mailto:pstepek@...>
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com<mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:31 PM
> Subject: RE: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q Ltwt Budd Flat Top Parlors Silver
Chair and Parlor
>
>
> Silver chair seats face the galley, vestibule to the rear
> the car still exists, i have been in her and have photos
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Hubert Hanrahan
<domelinerdude@...<mailto:domelinerdude@...>>
> > To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com<mailto:CBQ@yahoogroupscom>>
> > Date: 12/12/2006 10:21:27 PM
> > Subject: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q Ltwt Budd Flat Top Parlors Silver Chair
and Parlor
> >
> > Glen,
> >
> > In Wayner publications "Amtrak Car Diagrams," a variety of floor
plans
> > are shown including those of many former CB&Q Passenger cars.
Included
> > is the floor plan after 1968 of Silver Parlor and Silver chair.
> >
> > The small galley was built in the former Drawing Room, and the
coach
> > section included 52 coach seats. The diagram shows the seats
facing
> > the vestibule with the drawing room behind them.
> >
> > Hubert Hanrahan
> >
> > --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com<mailto:CBQ%
40yahoogroups.com>, "zephyr98072" <glenehaug@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I am looking for an interior seating arrangement for these
flat top
> > > parlors after they were converted to dinette coaches in 1968
(how
> > many
> > > coach seats, direction they were facing, and location and/or
size of
> > > the small kitchen that I understand was placed in the cars.
> > >
> > > Glen Haug
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
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