SGL -- my point exactly. Why waste the resources of a struggling railroad to modify a piece of equipment for an uneeded reason. That's what shades are for. Two cars had "raised" windows -- one Erie, one DL&W. Both were built that way. The windows were in the passageway and sleeping room area -- and, even then, one could question the need, considering the hundreds of thousands of sleeping rooms running around the country with "normal" windows. 'Tis somewhat of a mystery. Randy Brown - -------------------------------------------------------------- Randy, the alleged issue was bystanders bystanding on a raised platform, i.e. at car floor height. What gets me about that idea is that the head of the window in that case is generally about eye level, so a raised sill still doesn't provide privacy, the putative reason. This is perplexing. I can't think of a place on the DL&W where there WERE raised platforms. Not Hoboken, not Scranton . . . Buffalo?? SGL ------------------------------
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