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[CBQ] Re: Sleeping Car Poplar Branch/Flat et, al.

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Subject: [CBQ] Re: Sleeping Car Poplar Branch/Flat et, al.
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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:27:39 -0000
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Duncan: 

>From my CRI&P passenger book, "In May, 1956, the Zephyr-Rocket's sleepers were 
>upgraded to a pair of Rock Island 6-6-4 cats, ***. Burlington, meanwhile, 
>furnished a pair of 6-section, 6-double bedroom modernized heavy-weights named 
>Poplar Branch and Poplar Flat. To privide a better match with the rest of the 
>equipment, the CB&Q cars were painted silver with "shadow-like" accents."

This reference is what throws my decalling into a tizzy. Pullman is out of 
business but the "Q" still has these heavyweights in service. So do we decal 
with PULLMAN or BURLINGTON in the letterboard and Poplar Branch/Flat on the 
side?

Model Railroading gets to be so much fun!

Paul Buhrke

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@...> wrote:
>
> Paul, I'll be interested to hear the answer.  MY information is that these 
> cars were on the ZR roughly May 1956 to April 1958.  Is that consistent with 
> what you know?
> Duncan Cameron
> 




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