[CBQ] Streamlined Jim Crow Coach

[Stephen Levine <sjl_prodigynet@yahoo.com>]

I was looking at the plans for chair car 4712, Silver Crown, in a book of 
Burlington Passenger Car Diagrams published in the mid 80's by Railway 
Production Classics (David Randall's firm).  The plans for this 1940 Budd car 
show a partitioned Jim Crow section on its vestibule end with "Negro" men's and 
women's restrooms.  This is the first time I have noticed this oddity.
 
Why in the world would the Burlington need a Jim Crow car?  I don't think any 
of the states it served had Jim Crow laws.  The General Pershing Zephyr cars, 
which served Missouri, did not have Jim Crow sections.
 
 

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