Trains operated often WB through CB - due to mail & express
transfer. Multiple sections of the DZ would go on different routes,
depending on the trains involved - though, mostly - multiple sections
of the DZ were termed CZ follow-on sections rather than the DZ
sections so that they could take advantage of an earlier schedule.
At 06:59 PM 10/21/2008, Stephen Levine wrote:
>I think most of the Chicago-Omaha trains operated via Council Bluffs.
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>If I remember correctly from timetables -- which I probably do not
>-- the CZ operated both directions down the west bank but the DZ,
>until the 1960's, operated westbound via Council Bluffs and
>Eastbound, via the west bank.
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>From: Rick Keil <rkeil6721@hotmail.com>
>Subject: RE: [CBQ] Re: Thoughts on the Ak Sar Ben Zephyr
>To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
>Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 11:44 PM
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>passenger travel, and only traveled a couple of times on Amtrak, I
>may have had some misconceptions. The freight versus passenger route
>has indeed been discussed. My thought was more to the handling of
>the train and the passengers therein. Since the Ak was an overnight
>train, I would guess (maybe wrongly) that passengers would still be
>asleep when they arrived in Council Bluffs and that the Q would take
>precautions on "disturbing" the customers. But it appears that
>cutting off the head end cars would not be that rough and most of
>the passengers would be up anyway getting ready for the arrival to
>Omaha (or Council Bluffs if they were detraining there).
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>http://windowslive. com/connect/ post/wedowindows live.spaces.
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