Rick, I wanted to weigh in on your questions about 10-6's and the American Royal Zephyr. As pointed out Silver Dale and Silver Slope were assigned to the brand new "Vista Dome American Royal Zephyr"
As a point of interest, the Railroad Passenger Car Alliance is having their annual convention this weekend in Kansas City, Missouri. (1/12/02). In attendance are the former KCZ Vista Dome Observation
The Walthers Baggage car is a Santa Fe prototype, but is very correct for Rock Island too (with a truck change). My impression is that the Athearn baggage car suggests a pre-war Budd baggage car, and
Don, Thanks the piece on the Mars light. What an interesting background! Best part of riding yellow and grey streamliners years ago, was being up in the darkened dome car watching the Mars light shin
Loren, Did the prewar baggage cars do service between Denver and Texas? The Walthers Slumbercoach on your"Mainstreeter" will be great! I was lucky to spend numerous overnight trips on a Slumbercoach
Loren, There is are a couple of run-bys of the Nebraska Zephyr in the video "Memories of Burlington Diesels". One shows Silver View or Silver Vista bringing up the rear of the Nebraska Zephyr, behind
Brad, I checked into a May - September 1951 Burlington Timetable to look for the new flat top parlors. Northbound from Chicago, train #21 carried a Vista Dome Parlor Car, line number P-21, and Parlor
John, Please remember, as a writer recently pointed out in Trains Magazine, by law only Amtrak has the right to operate over many freight roads. Eliminate Amtrak and many carriers are not likely to g
John, I appreciate the information! The light color (NP) seems difficult to mix. I think I'll wait for your new paint. Thanks. Hubert [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Bryan, I checked a popular on-line Video and DVD retailer, and no listing for "Cinerama Holiday" came up. I don't recall seeing it in the past. It seems in time everything is transferred to DVD or Vi
Could you compare Cinerama Holiday to "How the West Was Won"? If a negative was usable, for transfer to video, it could be viewed with the slightly noticable vertical edges on the right hand and left
Hey John, What do you suggest for an NP/CB&Q "North Coast Limited" using your paints? It seems I can find one of the 2 tone green colors, but not the other. Thanks. Hubert KansasCityZephyr@a... [Non-
The only N scale square end lightweight observation car was the original MRC Sleeper Lounge Observation, based on a B&O 5 Bedroom, Buffet Observation (i.e. "Metcalf" "Dana", etc.) Member John Wegner
Yes, kitbashing in N scale is more challenging than in HO. Fortunate for us Burlington modelers, Charlie was working at Kato at the time the Budd equipment made it's N scale debut. Thanks Charlie! Yo
So far my N Scale "Denver Zephyr" has been on static (shelf) display. What I have done with other brass N Scale passenger cars is to use a Unimate fixed drawbar on the front, and a Kadee coupler on t
Rick, Train station products sounds like a good starting point for re-trucking Walthers passenger cars. Hubert [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Scott, Yes, I'm refering to the color photograph located in the Walther's flyer. Their paragraph above mentions "the dome coach", while the photo is a former CP "Skyline" Dome Coffee Shop Coach, in V