ROBERT WILLISONI think beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The dz OBS and pheobe snow are cool and functional cars and still with us today.
Square End Observation cars - especially when not equipped with a diaphram were fitting tail cars for they trains the served. I had many miles of watching the countryside pass on the Napanee and Wawasee on the B&O's Capitol Limited.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
The Erie-Lackawanna Phoebe Snow had sleepers. I rode in them.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
CandOforprogress2 How was the EL Lake Cities route diffrent from the Phobe Snow? Did they use the same equipment? also as far as i know the Phobe Snow equipment spent its last days as a commuter train from Cleveland to Youngstown and then ended up in Metro-North hands as a buisness train.
How was the EL Lake Cities route diffrent from the Phobe Snow? Did they use the same equipment? also as far as i know the Phobe Snow equipment spent its last days as a commuter train from Cleveland to Youngstown and then ended up in Metro-North hands as a buisness train.
Johnny
I saw Silver Solarium, Silver Rapids and Silver Lariat on the rear of Amtrak #5 last Friday and Saturday. When we stopped in Glenwood Springs, many passengers took pictures of the three. Your eye and mine are alike. (Of course, the lunchbox markers were quite evident on Silver Solarium--and David P. Morgan did not really like them.) I was able to get a picture of the dome on Silver Lariat through the rear door of my car (it was right behind my car).
I think beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The dz OBS and pheobe snow are cool and functional cars and still with us today.
The same could be the for the obs on the 1956 "Denver Zephyr".
Along with the worlds ugliest looking observation car.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtn6T8Si2ME
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