Above—The chair cars each seat 54 passengers on the main floor and 24 in the dome. Below—The

Budd Builds Six-Car " for Wabash

Three dome chair cars, a dome parlor-, diner­ lounge, and baggage-buffet-lounge offer variety of accommoda­ tions for daylight service between and St. Louis, Mo.

On February 26 the Wabash placed in service a new and the adjoining lounge, 23. The chair cars, parlor Budd-built six-car all stainless-steel passenger , sections, and drawing room can accommodate 190 pas­ four of the cars in which have dome observation com­ sengers, exclusive of the 96 dome seats and the six partments. The train operates between Chicago and seats in the observation section. St. Louis, Mo., making a round trip every day. It con- The exterior of the train is dark blue and stainless sists of a combination baggage-buffet-. three steel. The blue is applied on the skirt below the side dome chair cars, a diner-lounge car. and a dome par- sill, on the window panel, and on the letterboard. The lor-observation car. latter two surfaces are separated by the unpainted Each chair car seats 54 passengers on the main floor stainless steel of the upper belt rail. The roof and sides and has seats for 24 in the dome. The parlor-observa­ of the car below the windows are unpainted stainless tion car seats nine in the forward parlor -ecLon. 14 steel. Lettering is in gold on the dark blue ground. in the rear parlor section, five in the under-dome draw­ Seats in the main-floor compartments of the dome ing room, and six in the observation section at the rear chair cars are the Sleepy Hollow type and are indi­ end of the car. The dome seats 24. The dining car has vidually reclining and rotating reversible. The rub­ five tables on each side of the dining room and seats ber-covered foot rests are adjustable. Seats in the domes 40. The cocktail lounge adjoining the dining room has are reversible but do not recline. Ash trays are seats for 12. The lunch counter accommodates nine mounted in the arms of these seats and there are

42 <638) Railway Age—April 1, 1950 Murals are done in oil on canvas

Looking down the dome stair­ way into the rear chair-car compartment

The buffet, looking toward the lounge at the rear end of the baggage­ buffet- lounge folding foot rests. The cushions and arm rests of all is plum which is used on the walls of the two main seats are foam rubber. compartments. The carpet is rose and upholstery al­ The decorations of the interiors of the chair cars ternately ashes of roses and blue. The ceiling is a and diner are all based on dark blue and gray 'walls. light beige, as are also the walls of the observation with drapes, upholstery and carpets varying to pro- section. Wall colors in the domes are plum tones, duce a distinctive color combination in each car. In with a rose carpet and seat upholstery alternately blue one of the chair cars a rose carpet and blue needle- and gray. point upholstery are set off by drapes with a blue back­ Chairs in the rear parlor section are Sleepy Hol­ ground and contrasting horizontal stripes. The carpets low type, rotating and fully adjustable. In the forward in the other two cars are blue; the upholstery in one, parlor section are nine movable barrel-back lounge gray, and in the other, ashes of roses. Drapes are pat­ chairs. The observation section is furnished with six terned in blue, and gray and blue, respectively. Carpets large overstufled lounge chairs. These chairs arc all in the domes are the same as in the main passenger upholstered in ashes of roses. compartments. Upholstery in the domes is of the same The lounge in the combination car is furnished with three colors used in the main passenger compartments 12 arm chairs, two sections with fixed settees and a of the three cars, but is selected so that the colors in curved corner seat. This room is decorated in tones of the dome and main compartments of each car are dif­ tan and blue-green. The sides are tan; the ceiling, ferent. light beige, and the painted portion of the end walls, blue-green. The carpet is rose and the leather in the Decorations sections and corner seat, green. The chair upholstery is equally divided among gray, blue and turquoise. In the dining car the walls of the cocktail lounge are Window drapes are turquoise. The pier panels in the blue and the ceiling light ivory. The carpet is a lounge and counter sections are covered with gold- feather pattern in several tones of blue. The drapes are tinted mirrors. blue and the leather upholstery’ on the chairs and set­ The walls and ceilings in the lunch-counter section tees. Chinese red. In the dining room the wainscot and are finished in the same colors as those in the lounge. painted parts of the partitions arc blue, and the sides The door to the baggage space is blue-green, as is above the windows and the ceiling, two tones of ivory. also the painted portion of the partition between the The patterned drapes and carpets are blue and the two rooms. The decorative feature of this partition is upholstery, tan leather. Table tops are black. etched glass panels. The stools at the counter are up­ A distinctive feature of the dining car is the decora­ holstered in green leather, matching in color that tive screens which separate the dining room from the in the lounge sections. The bar front is finished in cocktail lounge. These are vertical rods of clear Lucite green and tan leather and stainless steel. across which are laced strips of red leather matching Murals painted in oils on canvas, by Auriel Besse­ the color of the lounge upholstery. The rods are edge- mer, decorate a partition in each of the cars, with lit and the decorative bands etched around them glow the exception of the dining car. In the three dome red when the edge lights are on. chair-cars and the parlor-observation car the mural The pier panels in the dining room are faced with covers the partition above the wainscot at the end of mirrors. These and the large mirror on the pantry the forward main passenger compartment. In the com­ foyer wall are gold tinted. Repousse decorations are bination car there are two framed murals, one on placed on the headers at the ends of the dining room. each side of the passage at the end of the lounge op­ The predominant hue in the parlor-observation car posite the lunch counter. These depict aspects of the

44 ( 640) Railway Ag •April 1, 1950 V S:LCl.-__ v., 1 _ T. 'fc a 0 I- - I; si Ji L 1 . I s H -: —- > 1| ? ran ■' 1^®" —• r II iJf -..-.Li '9 w £ • - I - - j i- < Is 11 1 I Jp .ijJ8LW i ’ V |f ’ i. « i- ?' ' -F f i icj* ’— •■ v, I <;,!W ^rj PI iu*r '-ii •I 7 ■ —JB . ... 5* I L7- w II j; Z«1 ■MB** »W , 0 Facing page—Looking toward the cocktail lounge at the end of the dining room. Above left—Screens between the dining room and the cocktail lounge are clear Lucite rods laced with red leather. Above right—In the kitchen looking toward the pantry lighting is furnished by motor alternators. One 2-kw. machine is installed on each chair car and on the com­ bination car, one 3-kw. machine on the parlor-observa­ life of the territory through which the train operates, tion car. and two 2-kw. machines on the dining car. some historical and some contemporary. Batteries are Exide, of 1.294 amp.hr. capacity. The car-body structures are of Budd Shotweld con­ Air conditioning is the Frigidaire electro-mechanical struction in which stainless steel is used throughout, system of 10 tons' capacity. Condensers are the full except for the welded alloy-steel combination ends, flooded type. On the dome cars there are two evapora­ draft sills and bolsters which are joined Io the stain­ tors. one of six tons’ capacity for the main passenger less steel center sills by rivets. Sides are of truss form compartments and the under-dome space, and one of and the corrugated roofs of the builder’s standard type four tons’ capacity for the dome space. with outside purlines. The under floor consists of stain­ Recirculated air passes through electrostatic Air­ less steel pans, at one end of each of which is formed mats and Dorex activated carbon deodorizers. In the a transverse floor support. The plywood floor is laid dome chair cars and the parlor-observation car air is directly on these floor supports and secured to them distributed through Multi-vent ceiling panels in the with Cherry monel rivets. main passenger compartments and through outlets Sound deadening is a]pplied in the form of Insul- along the sides of the ceiling duct in the domes. Side mat. which is sprayed onl the inside of the roof, sides, outlets are also employed in the dining room of the ends and floor pans. The body insulation is 3 in. thick diner and in the lounge in the combination car. Anemo­ throughout. In the four dome cars the material is Ultra- slats are employed in the cocktail lounge of the diner file. In the combination car and dining car the mate­ and in the lunch-counter section of the combination rial is Stonefelt. The kitchen and pantry partitions car. in the dining car, and the partition between the bag­ Heating is the Vapor zone-control system. A main gage section and the lunch counter in the combination control panel both for heating and air cooling is in­ car are insulated with lJ/> in. of Stonefelt. These and stalled in a control locker. Changeover from heating to partitions in the other cars are of carbon steel, alumi­ cooling, or vice versa, is manual. Overhead heat is sup­ num or metal-faced plywood. plied from a steam coil in the evaporator; floor heat, from fin-tube radiators. Both are thermostatically con­ Electric Power—Air Conditioning trolled. Steam-heat train lines are 2j/« in., with Vapor flexible metallic connections and end valves. Windows are Adams & Westlake double-glazed Kitchen ventilation is supplied from three sources. breather type. Those in the body of the car are glazed An air curtain at the doorway between the foyer and with %-in. panes of Solex outside and safety glass in­ pantry supplies 500 cu. ft. per min. of air taken from side. The dome windows are curved and both inside the dining room through a grill in the foyer ceiling. At and outside panes are -ks in. thick. The outside pane the front end of the kitchen a blower supplies 1,000 cu. and the outside lamination of the inside safety glass ft. per min., of which 800 cu. ft. is fresh air from out­ are Solex. The windows at the observation end of the side the car and 200 cu. ft is recirculated air taken parlor-observation car are also curved to conform to from the passageway through a ceiling grill. The air the lines of the car body. supplied by this fan is heated by a steam coil under Power for lighting and air conditioning is supplied thermostatic control. There is no provision for cooling. on each car by a Safety 25-kw. 32-volt d.c. generator An exhaust fan located over the range discharges air with Spicer drive. Alternating current for fluorescent at the rate of 1,600 cu. ft. per min. and 100 cu. ft. per

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Floor plans of the cars in the Wabash six-car "Blue Bird." The three chair cars and the parlor-observation car have dome observation compartments

min. is removed from the regulator locker through a cars. In the chair cars fluorescent fixtures are set in the 1 separate fan. center of the ceilings of the main passenger compart­ Air is exhausted from the lunch-counter area of the ments, and are placed at the sides of the central ceiling combination car through a fan of 450 cu. ft. per min. panel in the domes. Reading lights under the bag racks capacity. are incandescent. The parlor-observation car has fluor­ Frigidaire refrigerators are installed in the dining escent fixtures both in the center of the ceiling and un­ car and at the lunch counter. One of the refrigerators der the bag racks. In the dining room and cocktail in each of these cars provides for ice-cube manufac­ lounge of the dining car and the lounge in the com­ ture. bination car fluorescent fixtures are arranged continu­ Fluorescent lighting is extensively used in all the ously around the sides at the ceiling. In the lunch-

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PARTIAL LIST OF MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT ON Dome cars .Gustin-Bacon Manufacturing Co., Kansas City, Mo. THE WABASH "BLUE BIRD" Floor rivets Cherry Rivet Co., Los Angeles, Cal. Venetian blinds . . Ajax-Consolidated Co., Chicago Truck castings; bolster Smoking stands .Marshall Field & Co., Chicago anchors .General Steel Castings Corp., Granite Vestibule flooring .Alan Wood Steel Co., Conshohocken, Pa. City, III. Step treads .Morton Manufacturing Co., Chicago Wheels; axles Bethlehem Steelit Co.uo., Bethlehem, Pa. Floor covering . Beck & Blatchford Co., Chicago Journal boxes Hyatt Bearings Di'.Div.,., General Motors Corp., Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron,kkron, Ohio Harrison, N. J. Carpet .James Lees & Sons Co., New York Sound insulating pads ....United States Rubber Co., New York Carpet pad .Koylon Div., United States Rubber Co., Couplers and coupler yokes.National Malleable & Steel Castings Co., New York - Cleveland, Ohio Chairs and tables .General Fireproofing Co., Youngstown, Draft gear Waugh Equipment Co., New York Ohio Center pins W. H. Miner, Inc., Chicago S. Karpen & Bros., Chicago Air-brake and signal Seats — chair cars and dome. Hey wood-Wakefield Co., Gardner, Mass. equipment ..... Westinghouse Air Brake Co., Wilmerding, Light fixtures . . . .Luminator, Inc., Chicago Pa. Safety Car Heating & Lighting Co., New Clasp brakes .. American Steel Foundries, Chicago York Hand brakes National Brake Co., New York Radio and public address Air-conditioning equipment. Frigidaire Div., General Motors Corp., system Farnsworth Television & Radio Corp., Dayton, Ohio Fort Wayne, Ind. Air diffusers Anemostat Corp.

counter area the lights are in individual incandescent in the kitchen of the dining car and two 50-gal. tanks fixtures. The lighting in all main passageways and in at the lunch counter. In each case one is for hot water lhe underdome wash rooms is also fluorescent. The and one for cold. There are fillers on each side of the kitchen and pantry of the dining car and all vestibule car for the overhead tanks. Electro-mechanical drink­ lights are incandescent. ing-water coolers are placed in each at the The train is equipped with the Farnsworth radio end of the under-dome corridor beside the stairway to and public address system and two wire recorder chan­ the dome. nels. The antenna is on the combination cai- an (1 The air brakes are Westinghouse HSC type with 250 the receiving set and master control station are in the per cent braking ratio and 100 lb. cylinder pressure, lunch-counter section of this car. Loud-speakers are with electro-pneumatic straight-air control. The equip­ placed in the ceilings of the chair cars, parlor-obser­ ment includes Westinghouse speed governors and vation car, dining car and lounge of the combination decelostats without sand. There are no retaining car. valves. There is also one in the drawing room in the par­ The trucks are General Steel Castings equalizer type lor-observation car controlled by a five-point selector with combination coil and elliptical bolster springs and switch. This permits the choice of the public address without shock absorbers. The wheel base is 8 ft. 6 in. circuit, the radio, either one of the two recorded pro­ and all axles are 6-in. by 11-in., equipped with Hyatt grams available, or off. A door switch opens the roller bearings. The wheels are 36-in. multiple-wear speaker circuit when the drawing-room door is opened. wrought steel. Sound-deadening pads of rubberized fab­ There are two public-address hand sets on the ric are applied on the center plates, equalizer spring train, one at the steward’s station in the dining car seats, side bearings and swing hangers. and the other at the radio locker in the counter sec- The cars have National Malleable tight-lock couplers tion of the combination car. There is no telephone and Waughmat draft gears. There is an uncoupling train line. At the rear end of the parlor-observation mechanism on one side only. No buffers are on the cars car, however, is a jack and telephone set for plugging now, but provision has been made for their future ap- into the Bell System at terminals. plication. The closures between the ends of the cars Water is carried in two 150-gal. tanks under each include both inner and outer diaphragms. End doors are car. There are two additional 75-gal. tanks overhead operated pneumatically.

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