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To be brief on the Rock in the 50s and 60s...They had stainless fluted cars from Budd and Pullman Standard. Most everything was 85' long. Standard Pullmans, coaches with long windows, dining-parlor observation cars, dining cars, 1 full parlor car, some full parlor-observation cars, and then all that Golden Rocket stuff. <br />In suburban service there were the '20s era coaches with walk-over seats. They had no diaphragms, no doors except to the interiors and no traps. The rock also had some similar cars bought from the CNW. In 1949 the Rock bought 100 unusual suburban coaches from Pullman-Standard. The had nice (upholstered) walk-over seats and 2 sets of sliding doors on each side, but no vestibules. Unusual for suburban equipment they had subway style destination signs on each side that could be cranked to the propper reading. The cars were originaly Pullman (olive) green with a duluxe stripe below the windows, and a Rock Island insignia with the car number below, centered, and below the stripe. Later they were painted a brighter green. Then came the Budd bi-level suburban push-pull crs of 1961, and finally the 10 bright red bi-levels from PS in 1970. <br />Take a look at Dave Randall's excellent books "The Pullman Standard Library, Vol 8" and his equally good "Passenger Car Library Vol 3" for more details. <br />Rock passenger trains of the mid '60s were a hoot. Any kind of E unit in any of a number of paint schemes, TOFC cars, head end stuff, coaches, and an obs car with its end squared off as the cafe car. <br />Mitch
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