CBQ purchased three baggage cars for the TCZ from Budd that were essentially add-on clones to the ones originally purchased for the DZ. The names were ARGO, OLYMPUS and SILVER TREASURE. At least two of the three were equipped with a boiler and water strorage, and seemed to be intended to allow the otherwise orphaned boiler-less EA shovel nose locomotives to continue to be used with the new TCZ after the articulated units departed to Omaha. Or…at least allowed the EAs continued use elsewhere, e.g.. Silver Streak Z.
The records I have are unclear as to which two received the boiler, only agreeing on ARGO. Now, I have come across a gorgeous factory Shoreham Shops model of the D&RGW SILVER ANTELOPE that shows that has all the considerable distinctive obvious detail of the boiler-equipped car (minus any roof exhaust). When the dispersal of the CZ cars took place, was there an exchange of the original SILVER ANTELOPE for one of the CBQ’s boiler equipped cars (with subsequent change of name), presuming that the DRGW wished to be free to use any available non-boiler equipped locomotive for their new independent Denver-SLC zephyr operation.
Does anyone have any wisdom in this regard, or was the the execution of the mode by Shoreham Shopesl simply a mistake?
Denny
Denny S. Anspach, MD
Sacramento, CA 95864
