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Re: [CBQ] Dome cars

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Dome cars
From: Bob Webber <cz17@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:59:01 -0500
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Its in White's Books, in several dome books, and other 
places.   There is a Westwood kit that can be made into a good 
representation (assuming you can find it - it is usually one of the 
more expensive variants).

But, yeah, it's always seen as a dome progenitor, but something of an 
evolutionary dead end.



At 02:50 AM 7/24/2010, you wrote:
>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>
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>Subject: Re: [CBQ] Dome cars
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> > 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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