by Kangaroo of 72
I was just thinking that -- even today -- the concept of the commuter "gallery car" is a quantum leap beyond anything else on the rails, at least passenger-wise. I mean, even Amfleet isn't too far removed from the clunky, steam era cars. And then, sometime in the '50s(?), seemingly out of the blue, we get these sleek double-deckers with tinted green windows that blew everything else away.
Does anyone know who the architect/designer of the first generation of bilevels was? And, would that be the Santa Fe's Super Chief, then? Or was it the St. Louis cars for CNW?
I wonder why they never caught on, on the East coast? (And I don't think VRE counts). Is the East too "traditional" to adopt something like this?
Does anyone know who the architect/designer of the first generation of bilevels was? And, would that be the Santa Fe's Super Chief, then? Or was it the St. Louis cars for CNW?
I wonder why they never caught on, on the East coast? (And I don't think VRE counts). Is the East too "traditional" to adopt something like this?