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NP water/baggage had 2- 1300 gallon tanks on the forward end to supply the added need of their F units. The tanks were in the body of the cars between the end and the side door. NP had about a dozen cars. From: Bob Webber <rgz17@comcast.net> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 1, 2013 9:04 AM Subject: RE: [CBQ] Office cars
Not office cars, but there are photos and consists with a CZ
obs behind the baggage car in an otherwise normal CZ and on a WP
special. The car was running "backwards" in both cases,
used mostly as a lounge in the special, a DH on the CZ. I
wonder if they didn't ballast the baggage car - WP often did by using
water in the tanks, especially if the car was "light" and not
"working". They certainly did that for the exhibit
trains. I've not found any information on the use of the
water capability for its original intent (supplying extra water for the
steam generators). The NP also had "water baggage"
cars. Not sure of their use either.
Post '68 I believe there were instances of (unoccupied) DH cars for Burlington put on the tail of the DZ. At 08:46 AM 3/1/2013, you wrote: It was pretty much a hard and fast rule that office cars ran behind the headend cars on any train that had an observation car -- blunt-end or round-end. That changed in 1968, and office cars began to be operated behind observation cars on the rear of trains -- except for the CZ, where they continued on the headend until the train was discontinued (since the CZ round-ends had no rear diaphragms to help stabilize a trailing car.
Bob Webber
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