Rich,
I had the books out looking for fluted Pullman roofs. (I found one Ed!
More later.) The Pullman Standard Library (Vol. 13 p. 214) says the car was
built in 1936 and remodeled in 1938. The title of the drawing says:
Observation Lounge
4th CIty of Portland
Notes about the "City" trains say that this was the observation of the "Fourth
Train". The train was the "City of Los Angels" from 8/38 to 8/41. Then it
became the "City of Portland" until 2/23/47 when it was stored. From 10/1/47
until the spring of 1948 this trainset subbed for one trainset of the "City of
Denver" while the former's consists were shopped.
What you can't see in the photo is that car is articulated. It shared
a truck with "Oahu". The other oddity is that the upper portions of the sides
sloped in. Your photo is shown in the PS Library V13 along with a more
complete side view. The caption declares the "Copper King" to be "probably the
most unique, and no doubt the most distinctive railroad car ever built..."
Apparently it was built in 1936 as the auxiliary power car for M-100004. The
1938 rebuilding brought it to the appearance in your photo. There is a gaggle
of statistics included with the line drawing. Let me know if you are
interested in any of them. I looked for the car in "A Century of Pullman Cars
Volume 1", but there is no listing of it there. That is a bit strange.
Jamie Bothwell
Bethlehem, PA
--- In [email protected], "richgajnak" <rustytraque@...> wrote:
>
> Get a load of the Copper King....
>
> http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/up_copper_king0.jpg
>
> It says City of Los Angeles on the letterboard, but I can't find it in my
> "From Zephyr to Amtrak" book, which covers all manner of streamlined cars,
> including the early COLA trains.
>
> I'm guessing it's built by Pullman.
>
> Rich G(ajnak)
>
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