[CBQ] Buffet-obs-sleeper 483 Minneapolis Club

["Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>]

I am trying to establish if CB&Q buffet-observation-sleeper 483 Minneapolis Club left the North Coast Limited in 1954 or not. A Rail Classics article and the Car Names, Numbers and Consists list state that in 1954 the number of North Coast Limited train sets was reduced to five and car 483 was surplus. The Pullman Project spreadsheet also shows the car as being transferred back to the CB&Q in 1954.

However, photos dated 1964 and 1965 in Mike Spoor’s Volume 2 and in Zephyr 65 show it still in service on the NCL in the Loewy two-tone green paint.  A further photo in Volume 2 of the car, this time in aluminum/grey paint, indicates that it was painted after the end of observation cars on the NCL.

Thanks for any guidance.

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

 

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