Re: @ Knotts, 1991

GFDMatt Wrote:
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> Those look like two totally different cars.... The
> car in the Otto Perry picture is deifnitly a
> parlor car while the other car which is what i saw
> when i looked it up looks like a combination car?
> Were there two different "Chamas"?


The Parlor Car "Chama" was purchased by Knott's Berry Farm and is in use on their Ghost Town & Calico Railway at the amusement park. The train there was set up as follows, "Chama" running open platform first, three vestibule San Juan coaches and Parlor Car Durango running normally - open platform to the rear. In the early '50s, the park rebuilt the "Chama" into a combine with an open platform on the front and closed vestibule to the rear, now called the "Calico." They use this car for the "express messengers" to ride in. They become the "Outlaws" who rob the passengers as the train goes around the loop. As I said in my earlier post, it was a sad day when they rebuilt her but at least they have properly preserved the rest of their equipment, completely restoring RGS Business Car B-20, "Edna," as well as returning their locomtives to RGS and D&RGW configuration and paint.