Coaches #8 - #10
| CCRR |
U.P. 1885 |
UPD&G 1890 |
C&S 1899 |
C&S 1906 |
| #8 |
#184 |
#184 |
#141 |
#53 |
| #9 |
#185 |
#185 |
#142 |
#54 |
| #10 |
#186 |
#186 |
#143 |
#55 |
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(1) Colorado Central coach #186 (former #10) above Black Hawk, somewhere
between 1885 and 1889.
Photo at
Ferrell/C&S-22 and
Digerness3-410 (also at
Poor-107
F-A-R away on lower leg of wye). |
DESCRIPTION
Coaches #8, #9 and #10 were originally 40' long over endsills.
They had 14 evenly-spaced
double-pane windows,
with a substantial panel between them. It
appears that they had just enough rounding to the upper window corners to appear
arched in some photos and almost square in others. Each had 22 seats, which
probably meant they seated 44 passengers. They appear to have all had
bullnosed
platform roof overhangs, but #8
and #9 had flat eaves to the overhang while #10 appears to have had drooping
eaves. For some reason by 1885, #8 had 26" wheels, while #9 and #10 had 24"
wheels.
For some reason, though built together, the
C&S
passenger car diagrams lump together #8 and #9 (C&S #53 and #54), with a
separate diagram for #10 (C&S #55). See the SUMMARY
table below to get an idea of how mixed-up the various measurements became after
several rebuilds.
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(2) CC coach #8 at Inspiration Point, before 1889. CCRR photograph
at
Hauck-89,
Kindig-55 and
Poor-66(ME). |
HISTORY
Coaches #8, #9 and #10 were out-shopped in December 1880 by the Union Pacific
at a cost of $4,592.56 each. Five years later they were renumbered #184, #185
and #186. When the CCRR was reorganized as the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf,
these coaches retained the same numbers.
When the bankrupt UPD&G was reorganized as the Colorado & Southern, the three
coaches became C&S #141, #142 and #143. When C&S cars were renumbered in 1906
they became C&S #53, #54 and #55.
These cars were among the many dismantled in October 1929.
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(3)
C&S Coach #55. |
