Hello,
I am Trying to work out the car consist of the combined Empire Builder, North Coast Limited and Twin Cities Zephyr, mainly the NP North Coast Limited and the CBQ Zephyr cars that were used on this train around the 1968-69-70 period.
What NP NCL cars and CBQ Zephyr cars were in the consist?
Are the Zephyr cars the same as the ones used on the California Zephyr? Would BLI unlettered CZ cars work for this train?
I am working off a picture on page 95 of CB&Q in color by Michael J. Spoor; and other pictures in this book also. I have searched the internet and cant find much except for Empire Builder only consists.
I am currently running HO scale Walthers Empire Builder cars in a mix of GN Orange - Green/Big Sky Blue and 3 Walthers NP Vista Domes on the rear with CB&Q E-units up front. Obviously my train is not correct as it is nearly the full Empire Builder consist with the 3 NP domes on the rear end. I know one of the NP Domes was a Sleeper Dome but I am not that fussed with true prototypes as I am pretty much an off the shelf modeller. If I cant run it out of the box I cant run it at all!
Much appreciated, GMNUT