| Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad Diner 192, named Silver Spoon, at the Museum of Transportation in Saint Louis, Missouri on May 25, 1986, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 192 was one of three diners built by Budd, ordered in October 1937 on Job 946, delivered in May 1938. The original assignment was on the Aristocrat operating between Chicago and Denver, but the three diners spent most of their careers as spare cars in the Zephyr fleet. They were used on the Twin Cities Zephyrs in 1947 during the period after the 9904-9905 articulated trainsets were assigned to the Nebraska Zephyrs and before the new dining cars were delivered in 1948. This car illustrates the pre-war Budd design for the Zephyr fleet, with screwed in windows, cutouts in the lower fluting for the trucks and inboard truck-mounted brake cylinders. |