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hank

September 05, 2020 09:50AM

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AFAIK, only UP & CMStP&P had new Tourist Sleepers built after the war. Everybody else wanted to kill that business off. Part of the reason there was so much resistance to new designs like Budd's Slumbercoach, a lot of lines saw it as just a new version of the tourist cars they had worked so hard to get rid of.

Several roads, mostly in the West, had some at least some open sections because, I've heard, Federal government agencies would not reimburse for employee travel in anything more expensive.

Hank

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Tourist Sleeper D&RG 470 is now a Brown/Green color	drgw0579	September 02, 2020 07:57AM
Re: Tourist Sleeper is now Green	sunsetlimited	September 02, 2020 08:51AM
Re: Tourist Sleeper is now Green	Craig Kumler	September 02, 2020 09:06AM
Re: Tourist Sleeper is now Green	drgw0579	September 02, 2020 09:11AM
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Re: Tourist Sleeper is now Green	Earl	September 02, 2020 10:07PM
Re: Tourist Sleeper is now Green	Joe Weigman	September 02, 2020 10:36PM
Re: Tourist Sleeper is now Green	Brian Norden	September 02, 2020 11:20PM
Tourist Sleeper is now Greenish Brown	drgw0579	September 03, 2020 07:56AM
Re: Tourist Sleeper is now Greenish Brown	Pkwlsn	September 03, 2020 05:37PM
Re: Tourist Sleeper is now Greenish Brown	drgw0579	September 03, 2020 08:03PM
Re: Tourist Sleeper is now Green	drgw0579	September 03, 2020 07:30PM
Re: Tourist Sleeper is now Green	Craig Kumler	September 03, 2020 05:03PM
Re: Tourist Sleeper is now Green	drgw0579	September 03, 2020 05:19PM
Re: Tourist Sleeper is now Green	Ted miles	September 04, 2020 03:04PM
NNG: Taking a ride in an open berth	John West	September 04, 2020 04:37PM
Re: NNG: Taking a ride in an open berth	Brian Norden	September 04, 2020 05:36PM
Re: NNG: Taking a ride in an open section	John West	September 04, 2020 06:27PM
Re: NNG: Taking a ride in an open section	Brian Norden	September 04, 2020 09:39PM
Post-war Tourist Sleepers	hank	September 05, 2020 09:50AM
Re: Tourist Sleeper D&RG 470 is now the pre 1900 Pullman color	Jeff Ramsey	September 10, 2020 06:02AM

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