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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 03:05:11 -0500
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Here is the page on them in the web lurker's dome pages:
http://www.trainweb.org/web_lurker/CPWOOD/

(be aware, trainweb.org has some issues (with USARAILS) - and the 
whole trainweb site is showing as dangerous (due to java download buggers) )

At 02:59 AM 7/24/2010, you wrote:
>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
> >----- Original Message -----
> >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
> > >>
> > >>[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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> > > Bob Webber
> > >
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>Bob Webber
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