Wasn’t Lancaster Club used as a
dormitory car fairly regularly on the DZ?...at least that car
was painted silver.
Seems to me I’ve seen some daily
memos regarding make up of trains but don’t recall anything
about what power is to be assigned.
But you are correct, there must
have been some guidelines printed somewhere…..
Charlie Vlk
Bill,
I have both the original and revised editions of this book and
the
flow-charts of passenger cars are excellent, but that is not
what I am
looking for. The Denver Zephyr ran with 12 cars to almost 20
cars,
depending on the season, and ran in two sections (Coach and
Sleeper)
during the heavy summer travel season. What tonnage and number
of cars
dictated whether it ran with two E-units, three E-units or
four E-units.
I know that the E-9's were the preferred power on the DZ and
CZ usually
got E-7's or E-8's, but there had to be Data sheets telling
the
Operating Dept. this information.
I know that non-Stainless Steel cars were not allowed on the
DZ- and
when extra cars were needed, Budd SS coaches and domes
(including
pre-war SS cars) were pulled from the 'Zephyr Pool' to augment
the
train. When two sections were run- the coach section had a lot
of
pre-war SS cars and usually KCZ dome-coach-lounge-dorm cars
'Silver
Patio' and 'Silver Garden', as well as TCZ dome coaches and
pre-war
Diner-Lounge-Observations to augment and make a presentable
train worthy
of the DZ tradition. There had to be Data sheets instructing
the Coach
yard how the train was to be made-up.
I have almost every book ever printed on the 'Q' during the
40's,
50's and 60's, and John Strauss' three volumes on 'Burlington
Route
Passenger Trains' are a wealth of knowledge- including train
consists on
given days, but there had to be operating directives that told
the
passenger dept. how all of these above stated situations were
to be handled.
John Olson
On 1/26/2017 5:51 PM, Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com
[CBQ] wrote:
> John,
>
> Fred Frailey's Twilight of the Great Trains has some of
the information
> you are looking for. The original edition was from
Kalmbach, but he
> expanded the book with a second edition that is available
from Indiana
> University Press. He has a nice large chapter on
CB&Q, GN and NP
> passenger operations in the mid-late 1960's.
>
> Bill Hirt
>
>
> On 1/26/2017 5:32 PM, John Olson trains28@bresnan.net
[CBQ] wrote:
>> Last night I was looking through my 'Burlington Lines
Operating Data
>> Sheets', reprinted by the BRHS in 1998, which lists
all the scheduled
>> 'Q' freight trains operating during 1967 thru 1969-
starting with Train
>> #60 thru #808, CB&Q-PC-UP Runthrough service,
CB&Q-EL Runthrough
>> service, C&S- FW&D trains and Local Service
Sheets. Each train has 1 to
>> 3 pages devoted to it- listing the Schedule, the
Grouping (order of
>> consist) in the train for set-outs and pick-ups at
terminals, total
>> number of cars & tonnage allowed if 2, 3, 4 or 5
units are used. For
>> instance:
>>
>>
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