by Caveman613 » Fri Feb 26, 2010 11:23 pm
I saw that dome car you are talking about several times in the consist of the westbound T&P passenger train that passed through Abilene, Texas in the early afternoon in the years 1963 and possibly 1964, if my memory is correct. The last time I remember seeing it, it was already painted that infamous solid Binks blue that the Missouri Pacific had adopted for its passenger trains. I also remember that it was only a very short while after that last sighting I had of that dome car that T&P took the dining and sleeping cars off the passenger trains that it operated on its line west of Fort Worth, and it reduced the number of passenger trains it operated on its line west of Fort Worth to one a day in each direction. By 1965, the one passenger train T&P operated each way on its line west of Fort Worth had been reduced even more to a few mail and express cars, and just one coach (chair car). For meals this train stopped for about 30 minutes at Colorado City, Texas, and it made a second meal stop at Millsap, Texas, just west of Weatherford and Fort Worth.