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<P>In "Everywhere West, The Burlington Route" by Patrick Dorin, there's a July 1951 picture of an eastbound with an E Unit, 2 bilevels, and a power car on page 98. Other pictues always show the power cars, even on short trains and that's the way I remember them, but there could have been exceptions. </P> <P>The power cars were built for use with the first batch of bilevels and the book mentions they were also used with some rebuilt standard coaches in commuter service. The power cars did carry passengers and were smoking cars. The second batch of bilevels replaced the standard coaches, but there's no mention of any differences in power requirements. The first batch had brown interiors and tile floors, while the second group was green and had slightly plusher seats. Both had rather dim individual lighting fixtures compared to the recent rebuilds with bright flourescent lighting, so 61 volts may be right, but I don't know what they used for air conditioning. I believe the current rebuilds use 400 volt HEP and this was done in conjunction with converting the group of E-units to HEP and eliminating the power cars.</P>
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