Stephen,
Good Question. When the Diner-Parlor-Observation cars began service on the
Kansas City Zephyr, sometime around or after 1960 replacing the Vista Dome
Parlor Observation cars, photos reveal the KCZ was operating back and forth
between KCY and Chicao without being turned on a wye in KC on the Kansas City
Terminal. Presumably to reduce switching costs. (Photos indicate this operating
practice began earlier with the variety of Vista Dome Observations still in
service on the KCZ in the late 50's.)
Thus you see many photos of the early sixties edition of the KCZ with the
parlor diner Obs up against the RPO operating backwards and leading a dome
coach (built for the TCZ usually)and other equipment.
I suspect, based on photographs, the diaphram striker plate was added to the
Observation end of the Diner Parlor Obs cars in the early sixties for mid-train
service (between head end and coaches, etc.) on Q passenger trains such as the
KCZ and others.
Hubert
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Stephen Levine <sjl_prodigynet@...> wrote:
>
> I notice that picture 49 of this collection shows a Burlington pre-war
> diner-parlor-observation car that has been retrofitted with a rear
> diaphragm>Â Which car was it and when did it get so retrofitted?
>
> --- On Sat, 4/7/12, bdurham260 <bdurham260@...> wrote:
>
>
> From: bdurham260 <bdurham260@...>
> Subject: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q "Bulington" Business car on the end of a Northern
> Pacific train??
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, April 7, 2012, 8:25 PM
>
>
>
> Â
>
>
>
> Picture 712 is the one I am referring too.
>
> Brian Durham
>
> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Kenneth Martin <kmartin537@> wrote:
> >
> > If you are refering to number 48 this is not the "BURLINGTON" but checking
> > Glicks Business car book this is Car 2nd number 100. It was built in 1913
> > as a private car, bought by the Q in 1931, sold by BN in 1971.
> >
> > Office cars carried officials to places they needed to go. Apparantly some
> > official had to go somewhere on the NP so the car was hooked to the NP
> > train.
> >
> > Ken Martin
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Apr 7, 2012, at 1:30 PM, bdurham260 wrote:
> >
> > > I actually have the Burlington on my layout and actually have it on the
> > > tail end of a Northern Pacific train. I was surprised to see a picture of
> > > this in real life on the link below. There are a ton of pictures and I
> > > forgot what the number was, sorry.
> > >
> > > So this brings me to why would this actually be done in real life?
> > >
> > > http://melpatrick.shutterfly.com/pictures/183
> > >
> > >
> > > Brian Durham
> > >
> >
>
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