Re: Pullmans on CP Passenger Trains
- From: "jshorvath10583" <jshorvath10583@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:43:32 -0000
DON THOMAS wrote:
Most heavyweight Pullmans at this time had air conditioning bubbles
below their clerestories, for most of the length of the roof...This
is a good spotting feature for distinguishing the two trains.
One has to be a bit careful with using this as a spotting feature in photos. It
is indeed true that Pullman overwhelmingly favored applying AC ductwork on a
car's exterior, along the lower roof deck and against the clerestory, as
opposed to the internal ductwork (below the upper roof deck and between
clerestories) favored by the CN and CP as well as some U.S. railroads for their
coaches, diners, etc. However, Pullman typically used ductwork along both sides
only when a car contained accommodations such as sections and/or roomettes that
would line both sides of the aisle for at least a portion of the car's length.
On all-room cars (such as 6-3s) as well as parlors and many sleeper-lounges
(with room accommodations) the ductwork ran along only one side of the car. So
statistically in photos there's only a 50-50 chance that the side with ductwork
would show in a photo.
John S. Horvath
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