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[CBQ] American Royal Zephyr and Cafe-Coach cars

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Subject: [CBQ] American Royal Zephyr and Cafe-Coach cars
From: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 09:54:15 -0500
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As part of the initial American Royal Zephyr service from Chicago to Kansas City-St. Joseph, the Brookfield to  St. Joseph section is listed as having a:

Cafe-59 seat Coach

Budd 52 seat Coach

Budd 6-6-4 Sleeper

Based on looking at the passenger car roster, it looks like the Cafe-Coach would have to be from cars 350-352. They had table seating for 6 and counter seating for 4.

According to Bill Glick's books, all three cars were rebuilt in 1937 to Cafe-Coaches from Coach cars 6119 (built July 1922 by Pullman), 6126 (built August 1922 by Pullman) and 6136 (built August 1922).

Since this was a brand new train, I am wondering if the Cafe-Coach assigned to ARZ was painted silver to try to match the stainless steel cars (maybe even shadow-lined). Does anyone know?

Since the morning run was the only one in daylight, it appears photos of the train are rather scarce.

All three cars survived into the mid-late 1960s, so perhaps there are photos of the cars after the service on the ARZ ended.

Bill Hirt




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