Does anyone have a 1899 or 1900 timetable to show
the listed composition of these trains?
Noted that the second 1898
magazine reference stated -
The Pullman Company is building for the Burlington fast service to
Omaha and Denver four entirely new trains.
The equipment of each will consist of compartment and standard sleeping
cars, a composite car (having smoking room, buffet, bath and barber shop)
reclining chair cars and a dining car.
Noted that both magazine pieces referred to a dining car being built
by Pullman.
Would the "bath" in the composite car have
actually been a bath, or a bath room or merely a
toilet?
Rupert
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Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 7:41
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Subject: RE: [CBQ] Chicago-Denver
I suspect it was either due to the presence of the buffet - or...dining
stops. I don't have a 1899 PTT or ET - or even official guide - but, tho
diners surely existed, there were also, still, a large number of eating
houses.
Five dining cars were built for the CB&Q in
1901. Perhaps they found the need for them by that
time? Prior to that time, Pullman hadn't built any diners for the
Q - not to say Aurora or AC&F didn't build them, haven't really
looked.
Also interesting is the fact that
no dining car service is mentioned, though it was surely a part of the
train.
Hol
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