John,
In John Strauss Jr's book Burlington Route Passenger Trains Vol. 2
he states that a Tower series (8 sections-3 double bedrooms-1
drawing room) (names Zephyr Tower, Missouri Tower and Denver Tower)
was assigned to 29 and 30 in 1959 between Denver in Billings during
July and August and between Denver and Greybull the remainder of the
year. There is a page of photos of Zephyr Tower and Denver Tower
from Hol Wagner (taken 1963-64) in Bill Glick's Burlington Passenger
Car Photo Album. They show a centered Pullman in Zephyr type
lettering with the car name in Zephyr type lettering on a car
painted to match the stainless steel consists.
If modeling the train in HO, NKP Car Company recently produced the
Tower series cars as kits and The Coach Yard has announced them as
brass models.
Bill Hirt
C&S/CB&Q Train 29/30 carried a Pullman car Denver to
Billings late forties to late fifties, does anyone know what
kind ?(8-1-2 or 10-1-2 maybe). Was it lettered Pullman or
Burlington? If it was Pullman, was it sub-lettered CB&Q on
the ends of the letterboard? And last but least, did it have a
name ?
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Posted by: Bill Hirt <whirt@fastmail.com>
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