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Train Trivia 3/1/06 (ANSWERED)

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, March 2, 2006 6:02 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Texas Zepher

The CB&Q had a passenger car they called the "Bird Cage". It is unknown exactly what this was, but based on the few corporate memos where it is mentioned it is widely believed to be a 1890's equivalent of a dome car.

No idea actually, considering the way B&O's round houses looked they always seemed like bird cages to me.
Interesting I guess those metal handrails on an old observation car might look like a bird cage.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, March 2, 2006 2:14 PM
Cupola.


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Posted by Texas Zepher on Thursday, March 2, 2006 1:49 PM
The CB&Q had a passenger car they called the "Bird Cage". It is unknown exactly what this was, but based on the few corporate memos where it is mentioned it is widely believed to be a 1890's equivalent of a dome car.

No idea actually, considering the way B&O's round houses looked they always seemed like bird cages to me.
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Posted by james saunders on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 10:21 PM
lantern but thats a wild guess

James, Brisbane Australia

Modelling AT&SF in the 90s

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Train Trivia 3/1/06 (ANSWERED)
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 10:00 PM
A brakeman's lantern.
Source: Catskill Archive.com


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