I think there was some flexibility (i.e., sloppiness) in the real world as to
how these terms
were used, but 'chair cars' were intended for longer-distance travel, 'coaches'
for shorter
distances. The former had fewer seats with more leg room, but I don't believe
this was
reflected in the fares charged.
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "david_f_pease" <davidp@...> wrote:
>
> I was reading William Glick's new book Burlington passenger car
> photo album, when my wife (looking over my shoulder) ask me what
> the difference between a chair car and a coach car was. I said I
> have no idea. Looking at the photos they looked the same. I
> decided to google the question, on train.com they had a glossary
> of train terms the defined a chair car as another name for coach
> car. Ok this satisfied me until I got to page 300 in the book
> which has pictures of Burlington coach car 6117 which has both a
> chair and coach section. Ack! Ok the only thing different that I
> could see was the seating, however, I have seen both types of
> seating in both types of cars. So what is the real difference?
> Maybe cost of tickets? Leg room?
>
> David
>
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