RE: [CBQ] Re: Early Dome Trips (was Denver Zephyr Sign)

[HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>]

Silver Castle was converted to the same interior arrangement as Silver Dome because the Q needed a pair of cars for all the runs on which it desired to use dome coaches and thus it needed another car just like Silver Dome.
 
Hol
 

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To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: rgortowski@aol.com
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:53:21 -0400
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Early Dome Trips (was Denver Zephyr Sign)

 

Stephen,

 

The Silver Castle would have used the same 4700 series flat top coach as a starting point - I'd have to wonder if it was any better.  I always wondered why they converted another coach so late in the game when they would probably be better off getting another Budd Dome coach instead.  Remember, the lack of modern flat top coaches was one of the reasons the Q rebuilt the 10 heavweights into SSS coaches around 1953, yet they converted one of the pre-war flat tops to another pattern dome.

 

Rich G.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Levine <sjl_prodigynet@yahoo.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Oct 22, 2013 11:31 am
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Early Dome Trips (was Denver Zephyr Sign)

 

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HOL WAGNER wrote:

"I later rode Silver Dome a number of times, both on excursions and in regular service, and it was by far the most uncomfortable dome car ever built!"

Was the Silver Castle any better?  I saw the pattern domes a number of times and have seen pictures of the interior of the Silver Dome but never rode either. 

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