[CBQ] Re: CZ Diners

[Denny Anspach <danspach@macnexus.org>]

A distinct feature of the CZ diners was their minimal pantry storage  
capacity, so designed because they made use of dedicated pantry space  
in the accompanying coffee shop dome, i.e. the two cars being designed  
to operate routinely as a married pair.  This poor storage capacity  
limited the CZ diners' attractiveness to Amtrak and their eventual  
life span.  For awhile after Amtrak's initiation of the SF Zephyr, the  
CZ diners were in service for a short period, but only as a married  
pair with the former SP dome lounges- which had ample easy-to-get-to  
storage capacity under the false floor of the dome.


It would be a pertinent question as to whether or not any of the other  
CBQ diners would have had the same limitations, given their different  
route assignments.


Denny

Denny S. Anspach MD
Okoboji, IA








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