BlueComet400 posted:Hi Bob, ...... The one question I wish I could ask Jerry Brown is why he didn't go with the beaver-tail observation car.
Given more time, had he not been busy building M-10000s and M-10005s, and had his three Hiawatha sets attracted more orders, I think it is quite likely he would have made a beaver-tail observation car. Unfortunately, he passed before that could happen.
Bob Nelson