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Iowa Pacific launches restoration campaign for Milwaukee Road Skytop sleeper
I understand all the nostalgia surrounding these efforts, but would the rebuilt car really be venting all that steam?
Someone with requisite knowledge might comment on the fate of the 4 Milw. Rd. built and 6 PS built Skytops designed by Brooks Stevens.
Maybe the rebuild plans include a theatrical fog generator for just that purpose.
The Cedar Rapids, a parlor-observation car, is now owned by the Friends of the 261. They loaned it for a summer to Milwaukee’s lakefront art museum several years ago when the museum offered a comprehensive exhibit of the design work of Brooks Stevens. My sister and I enjoyed riding in it during a charter trip pulled by the California Zephyr about a year ago. Our train was detoured on the UP route over Sherman Hill because of flood damage on the former D&RGW line in Colorado.
Check Wikipedia. It is accurate, except it hasn’t been updated on the Coffee Creek ownership.
What happened to the preivous owners, they had completed a lot mechanical work and stripped it out from memory but I just can’t remember.