Bob
I couldn't recollect seeing any reference to this car in previous discussions.
Regards
Rupert
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From: "Bob Webber" <cz17@comcast.net>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Dome cars
> Rupert, this has always been referenced when the origin of domes is
> brought about. As are open observation cars, caboose copulas, and
> some other never-repeated concepts. But the real source of the
> modern dome is the cab of a F-unit. Without that, nothing else
> would have come to pass for years, if at all.
>
>
> At 07:43 PM 7/23/2010, you wrote:
>>There was a discussion a while back about the origins of dome cars.
>>I've found a photo in the 1903 Railway & Locomotive Engineer
>>showing a new Canadian Pacific observation car with a dome at each
>>end, and a parlor area between the domes. Perhaps that was where the
>>idea came from!
>>
>>Rupert Gamlen
>>Auckland NZ
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> Bob Webber
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