Passenger Cars of the South Park

Bonanza, Leadville, San Juan - Page 3

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U.P. 1885 UPD&G 1892 C&S 1899 C&S 1906
Pullman Bonanza Pullman Bonanza Coach #177 Coach #146 / Coach-RPO #116 #41
Pullman Leadville Pullman Leadville Coach #179 Coach #148 / Coach-RPO #118 #43
Pullman
San Juan
Burned 1881 Gone Gone Gone


C&S coach-mail #118 at Buffalo 1906-1910

(4) C&S coach-mail #118 at Buffalo, probably between 1906 and 1910.


PHOTOGRAPHS & PLANS

(Photos with Source and Page in blue are best to show car details.)

# DATE PHOTOG. LOCATION SOURCE PAGE C REMARKS
(1) Early 1880s Charles Weitfle Arkansas River Bridge Digerness1 227 EG Plan 73 Pullman sleeper; could be any one of the four: Kenosha, Leadville, San Juan or South Park
Ferrell/SoPk 51 DG
TK
Poor 178(ME) AA
  1883 Aug 1 Geo. E. Mellen Palisades Digerness2 343 DD Pullmans Leadville and Kenosha
(2) 1894? H.H. Buckwalter Atlantic Siding Digerness2 322 RR UPD&G coach #177 or #179
1895? Ferrell/SoPk 153 WA
late 1890s? Kindig 311(u) FM
1898? Speas 80 RR
  “1890s” Unknown High Bridge Kindig 233(d) RR Car on right may be (before 1892) Pullman Bonanza or Leadville, or (after 1892) UPD&G coach #177 or #179 [contra caption]
  1895 Unknown Morrison Digerness1 122/23 DD UPD&G coaches #177 and #179 (cars 3 and 4 from right)
(3) 1898 Unknown Roscoe (Clear Creek) Digerness3 339 DD UPD&G coach #177
Hauck 98(u) KS
Poor 281(u)(ME) SW
Mangan 346  
(4) 1906-1910   Buffalo Station     KM C&S coach #118
  1958 June 8 J.W. Maxwell End Silica Branch Maxwell 580601 JM “Old N.G. Pullman on Silica Branch”

Photo #1 is apparently the only photo of any of the plan 73 Pullman Palace sleeping cars before they were converted to coaches in 1892, while photo #2 appears to be the only photo of one of them as a coach.

For photos of other coach-mail and coach-RPO cars and of unidentified cars, see THE COACH-RPOs page.

The John Maxwell Collection offers a floor plan and elevations of the Plan 73 Pullmans, based on a drawing in the National Car Builder for January 1880 (DSP-103). They also offer plans for C&S coach-mail cars #40-43 (MC-170), and for the proposed combination coach-baggage/express-mail cars that were never built (MC-171).

C&S mail-coaches #40-43

Car diagram for C&S coaches #41 and #43 updated through 1916. (Note that this is not a scale drawing.) Click pic for enlargement.


SUMMARY

DSP&P No. Bonanza Leadville San Juan
1885 U.P. No. Bonanza Leadville Gone
1892 UPD&G No. #177 #179
1899 C&S No. #146/116 #148 / #118
1906 C&S No. #41 #43
Car Type 1885 Open Pullman
1892 Coach Gone
1906 Coach-mail
1932 Coach-RPO
Built 1879
Builder Pullmans Palace Car Co.
Date Assigned November 1879
Cost $8,500 each
Capacity 10 Sections (1885)
est. 23 seats as coach
14 seats (1932 as coach-RPO)
10 Sections
Length Over Endsills 42'-5"
Length Over Buffers (1932, with only one platform) 48'-1" Gone
Truck Centers (1932) 30'-11"
Truck Wheelbase (1932) 5'-6"
Width 1885 8'-4"
1932 8'-2" Gone
Weight ca. 1885 15 tons (as sleeper)
1912 20 tons (as coach-mail) Gone
1932 38,900 lbs. 37,700 lbs.
Wheel Size 1885 30" “paper”
1932 26" Gone
Heating 1885 Baker heater
1932 Spear Heater Gone
Lighting Oil Lamps Hicks & Smith
Interior Finish 1879 Mahogany
1932 Mahogany (passenger end)
White (mail end)
Gone
Platform Roof Bullnose
Termination Date 1928/29 1939 1881
Termination Method Retired/dismantled Dismantled/Body sold Burned while in shops
NOTE: The C&S passenger car diagram for cars #41 and #43 shows “corrections” were made 1-20-16, 6-22-16, 7-1-18 and 1-18-32. Presumable, then, many of the specifications indicated as “1932” above may have been applicable much earlier.


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31 July 2006

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