You are correct Stephen. I should have qualified my statement and stated as
"one of the last Vista Dome Observations built."
The photo you missed would have been a good one!
Thanks.
Hubert
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Stephen Levine <sjl_prodigynet@...> wrote:
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> Actually, other dome observation cars still survive, including the ex-CZ
> Sleeper Observation Silver Solarium (http://railjourneyswest.com), its sister
> Silver Crescent at the Gold Coast Railway Museum in Miami
> (http://gcrm.org/cz10.aspx), and the ex-parlor-obs Silver Tower, now at Ozark
> Mountain Railcar (http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/silver_tower.htm).
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> That said, I was hoping BNSF would restore the Silver Veranda to runnable
> condition for use in its business trains. However, an exhibit of both the
> Silver Veranda and Silver Streak sitting side by side would be wonderful.Â
> In the 60's, I could have taken a picture of such from the 23rd Street
> Viaduct in Denver but never got the nerve to do it, since that was a bad part
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> --- On Sat, 1/22/11, domelinerdude <domelinerdude@...> wrote:
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> From: domelinerdude <domelinerdude@...>
> Subject: [CBQ] Silver Veranda
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, January 22, 2011, 11:40 AM
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> country by the late Budd Company, it was the feature tail car of the last
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