THE ROUND=UP is for sale ($140.000+) on a private car
list. Din't remember which one. It also had SILVER
IRIS, Located in Missouri or southern Illinois.
--- Charlie Vlk <cvlk@comcast.net> wrote:
> It never registered with me that Randall was the
> compiler of "From Zephyr to Amtrak"....it looks like
> a Wayner book
> and when I think of Randall I think of the Railroad
> Passenger Car series including the reprint of the
> CB&Q Passenger
> Car Diagram Book.
> Yes, he does refer to the Silver Argo and Silver
> Olympus.... oh well.
> Seems to me that "The Round-UP" is still around but
> is no longer a CN car....seems to me I ran across a
> photo of it
> in its current owner's scheme recently.
> Charlie Vlk
>
> In the Randall book "From Zephyr to Amtrak" which
> I mentioned had the
> baggage cars listed as Silver Argo and Silver
> Olympus. I have heard from another
> person that Silver Post and Silver Page were
> supposed to carry the names Aurora
> and Aeolus.... however I've never seen that in
> print anywhere.
>
> Also the 1936 Twin Zephyr equipment carried a
> steam boiler in the power
> cars. I believe that equipment remained when both
> sets were refurbished for
> Nebraska Zephyr service. Business car Burlington
> and Round Up I never considered
> to be a part of the passenger fleet. Does anyone
> know if the Round Up is still
> around, I know it was sold to the CN if memory
> serves. I do know one thing
> though Round Up must have ridden like a Caddy...
> since it was a heavy weight
> covered in stainless steel. I remember seeing that
> car on the Q it looked like
> a battleship! It's a shame the Aurora Shops
> weren't still around, the ex
> Empire Builder full dome that the BNSF covered in
> fluted stainless would have
> looked so much better. Does anyone know it they
> removed the original stainless
> steel and replaced it? Or did they just cover the
> exterior with fluted
> stainless. It looks like something out of a
> child's erector set.
>
>
> .
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>
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