>The savings in crew costs for the Chuck Wagon type car would probably only
be a couple of men at most.?
Having read how the president that the "Q" had in the late-60s(?) detested
passenger service in general I seriously doubt that it was a matter of cost
savings. The mind set of practically all railroads in the 60s was to
increase operating costs so that they could have losses that they could
display with train off requests, and this is likely what was going on with
the cars in question.
Southern Railway's Brosnan took most of the modernized heavyweight coach -
dinette cars off the trains they were on and replaced them with full service
dining cars because the coach - dinettes were profitable and such was a
no-no in the minds of management that wanted rid of passenger train
service. Sad really. There was a lot that was done to provide for
railroads to show losses with creative accounting but it never hurt to be
able to show where costs were legitimately rising... such as in the case of
replacing a less costly operation with a more costly one.
--
*jerry
<jmlaboda@gmail.com>
**I hate getting old... Over the years I have learned a lot of things, but I
just can't remember much of it anymore.*
*Passenger Car Photo Index - New Home**! New Look! Same Great Resource!*
*UPDATED 11/13/10 WITH OVER 4357 NEW LINKS ADDED**!!!*
<http://passcarphotos.info>
*Southern Railway Historical & Modeling Resources - UPDATED 13 JANUARY 2011
!!!*
<http://southernmodeler.info/>
*Appreciate Freedom??? Thank a Veteran!!!*
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
------------------------------------
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/
<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional
<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/join
(Yahoo! ID required)
<*> To change settings via email:
CBQ-digest@yahoogroups.com
CBQ-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
CBQ-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
|