--- In [email protected], "raisinone" <raisinone@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
> >
>
Thanks, Jim. I kinda suspected "Copper King" was somehow related to one of the
ear
ly UP streamliners, if nothing else, by the shape and construction of the
carbody. Being it was a rebuild and not new, it escaped my reference book.
Rich G(ajnak)
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