A RR friend of mind posed these two questions for me to share with the group:
In the late 1960's the "Q" removed the Chuck Wagon cars (Silver Cup & Silver
Kettle) from #1 and #10. They moved up the parlor-bar cars from the rear of the
train up to behind the diner. The timetable shows a buffet/coach seating 44
passengers. I believe this to be the Silver Parlor and Silver Chair cars after
Aurora Shops had removed the parlor seats and put in coach seats and remade the
Drawing Room into a buffet and cut a hole in the wall to make a serving area
for the food/beverage service. This meant that the "Q" had to replace the one
type of car (Chuck Wagon) with a seperate food car (Silver Parlor or Silver
Chair) AND put a dorm car on the train for the crews to use. Someone here in
MSP suggests that probably a Silver Bird type of car with section space was run
on the rear of the train. This is a period when (probably) the mixing of crews
with regular passengers was frowned upon, unlike now with Amtrak doing so. Why
remove 1 car to replace it with 2 cars. The savings in crew costs for the Chuck
Wagon type car would probably only be a couple of men at most.?
Next question...At this same time in the timetables the consist for #11 and #12
shows a dinette/coach for food and beverage service. This was after the
Nebraska Zephyr sets of equipment were removed from $11-12 and the consists
were merged at Galesburg with the West Quincy service. We already know where
the Silver Parlor and Silver Chair cars are operating (#1 and #10) so what cars
are operating on #11-12. Did the "Q" bring up some former FW&D/C&S cars for
this service?
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