At 03:56 PM 8/6/2011, you wrote:
>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.?
Can't tell, "late 60s" involves a lot of time.
>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?
SILVER FOUNTAIN & SPIRIT
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Bob Webber
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