Osgood-Bradley "American Flyer" coaches

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I noticed that in this months MR, Rapido is announcing the release of an HO Osgood-Bradley 10-window coach. Which brings me to this question, which I SHOULD know the answer to, but I don’t.

I have several photographes of the Burlington-Rio Grande-Western Pacific “Exposition Flyer” taken both in Colorado and California in the late 'thirties, and in each photograph, there is a what we modelers used to call the “American Flyer” coach behind the baggage car. It looks very much like the Osgood-Bradley Pullman coach, and I think it is. The question is, if it IS an Osgood-Bradley coach, which of the three railroads that ran the “Exposition Flyer” owned it? I’d hardly think that a coach from the New Haven would end up in the Rockies or the Sierra on a daily train, LOL!

Any help would be much appreciated.

Tom

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Wow, someone asked a similar question to this in the toy train forum back in February, 2005. See http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/p/31356/404784.aspx#404784

He did not get a response, but does state that he knows that a couple of railroads ran these or similar cars. Maybe the list of similar cars will give you a lead.

Regards