Featured Fare From Frisco Folks

I keep a notebook where I gather bits and pieces of (usually passenger car) information. This info is from various places and some of it has been posted before, but here is what I've compiled about the Kansas City-Florida Special's big diners:

"Kansas City" was the only car actually decorated with shadow stripes as such. It was converted to diner-lounge (from 1508) in April 1936 and wore the Frisco green paint scheme. In April 1941 it was painted in the blue/gray Firefly-Meteor ...