Pullman was most certainly NOT out of business!
The 1948 Divestiture split the Pullman-Standard company into two major
entities - the car building (Pullman-Standard) and the car operating
(Pullman Co.). The cars that were owned were offered for sale
to the constituent companies. Most were then leased back to Pullman
to run a reorganized Pool. The LWs were mostly operated by
Pullman for their constituent roads outside the pool (i.e., within the
pervue of the RR instead of Pullman). Pullman was operating (and,
for that matter, building) cars well past 1956.
At 08:27 AM 6/17/2012, you wrote:
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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