RE: [CBQ] CB&Q Chair Cars

["Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Ken:
 
Originally a coach had rigid-back walkover seats while a chair car had reclining seats.  The difference began to blur during WWII and by the 1950s was essentially meaningless.  The Q even had two 70-foot steel cars, numbered 6117-6118 (in the coach number series) that were built half coach, half chair car.  By the early 1950s they, like all the other 6100 series steel coaches except those assigned to suburban (commuter) service, had reclining seats, making them essentially the same as the chair car sisters in the 4500s.  Back in 1904 the chair car number series began at 4000 and the coach series at 5000.  By the time the Budd lightweight car cars appeared, the series had reached the 4600s, and the articulated chair cars were in the 4650s and the non-articulated cars began at 4700.
 
Hol
 

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To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:25:08 -0400
Subject: [CBQ] CB&Q Chair Cars

 

I've seen some cars on the Burlington listed as chair cars and some as coaches. On the CB&Q, what was the difference between the two?

 

Thanks and best regards,

 

Ken Middleton
Portage, MI
krmiddle@charter.net

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Posted by: Hol Wagner <holpennywagner@msn.com>

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