Passenger Cars of the South Park

Coach #3 - Geneva - Page 3

DSP&P U.P. 1885 DL&G 1889 C&S 1899 C&S 1906
#3 #63 #63 #160 #56


PHOTOGRAPHS & PLANS

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

# DATE PHOTOG. LOCATION SOURCE PAGE C REMARKS
(1) 1878 Charles Weitfle Buffalo Creek Station Chappell 31 CH DSP&P (Barney & Smith) coach #3 or #5
Digerness1 165 DD
Kindig 32 FM
  1878 Charles Weitfle Buffalo Creek Station Ferrell/SoPk 31 TK DSP&P (Barney & Smith) coach #3 or #5; second exposure to photo above
Kierscey Image #0048 TK
  1878 Charles Weitfle Platte Canyon Digerness1 161 CH DSP&P (Barney & Smith) coach #3 or #5
Ferrell/SoPk 25 MF
Kierscey Image #00249 TK
  1879 Charles Weitfle Platte Canyon Digerness1 147 DD DSP&P (Barney & Smith) coach #3 or #5
  1880s Charles Weitfle Platte Canyon Chappell 30(dr) CH DSP&P (Barney & Smith) coach #3 or #5
Digerness1 166 DD
Ferrell/SoPk 22 MA
Kierscey Image #00103 TK
Kindig 343(ur) DP
Poor 136(ME) FR
Speas 20 RR
(2) 1886 Unknown above Breckenridge Digerness1 386(d) DD DSP&P coach #63
Digerness2 122 DD
  1918 Jun O.C. Perry South Denver Digerness1 117(d) DD C&S coach #56 or #57 (best guess)
Ferrell/C&S 93(d) JT
Kindig 406(d) OP
DPL WHC #OP-6205 CH

Digerness1-409 purports to be a side view drawing of DSP&P chaircar #63, but is not. First, the windows are paired as on the Plan 73 Pullman cars (South Park, Bonanza & San Juan), which those on the car in the photo above certainly are not. And second, the 41'-9" length of the scale drawing doesn't reconcile with any C&S passenger car, let alone coach #63. The drawing purports to be at a scale of 3/16' = 1' but appears to have been stretched laterally to fill the page (or shrunk vertically).

C&S Coach #56 Diagram
Car diagram for C&S coach #56 updated through 1916. (Note that this is not a scale drawing.) Click pic for enlargement.


SUMMARY

DSP&P No. #3 - Geneva
1885 U.P. No. #63
1889 DL&G No. #63
1899 C&S No. #160
1906 C&S No. #56
Car Type Coach
Capacity 21 seats (1885)       23 seats (1916)
Delivery Date 29 June 1878
Acquired From Barney & Smith Mfg. Co.
Length Over Endsills 40'-5"
Length Over Buffers 48'-0"
Truck Centers 30'-6"
Wheel Size 24" (1885)     26" (1916)
Truck Wheelbase 5'-0" (1916)
Width 8'-0"
Height of Body 8'-8½" (1916)
Body Above Rails 33" (1916)
Weight 17 tons (1912)      35,320 lbs. (1916)
Platform Roof Broken bullnose (1885/90)
Bullnose (after 1900?)
Heating Stove
Lighting Oil Lamps (1916)
Interior Finish Ash Finished Oak (1916)
Termination Date Yet to be determined
Termination Method Decay


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13 April 2006

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