As usual, Wikipedia is about half right and half wrong. "Copper King", originally LA902, was never a dome car. It was a buffet-lounge-observation car rebuilt by Pullman Standard from their auxiliary power-RPO-baggage car #12202; part of the pre-war Fourth Train "City of Los Angeles" consist. It was built as part of the Overland Route's rebuild of the Fourth Train in 1938. In December 1939 "Copper King" was renumbered CP902 and pulled up the rear markers of the "City of Portland". My references indicate it was retired in 1951 and sold to a private broker in Omaha. BTW, the Fourth Train, like many of these pre-war streamliners, was an all articulated train.
Jim Kindraka --- In [email protected], "Darrell" <darrell.ev.smith@...> wrote: > > Check out: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Los_Angeles > > Which says that the City Of Los Angeles was not a car, but a train on the UP. > This Wikipedia site also has a list of the cars used, stating that the car > in your pic was a Domeliner lounge/observation. > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
