Passenger Cars of the Colorado Central

B-M-X #3-#5 - Page 3

CCRR U.P. 1885 UPD&G 1890/97 C&S 1899 C&S 1906
B-M-X #3 #1323 #1323 / #28 #110 #10
B-M-X #4 #1324 #1324 / #29 #111 #11
B-M-X #5 #1325 #1325 / #30 #112 #12


PHOTOGRAPHS & PLANS (Continued)

The John Maxwell Collection has plans for C&S baggage-mail cars #10-12 with end platforms. It is their plan C-108.

Ed Gebhart has a plan for C&S postal baggage car #11 in the Jul/Aug 1989 issue of Narrow Gauge & Short Line Gazette.

Below is the Engineering Department’s car diagram for C&S baggage-mail cars #10, #11 and #12 updated through 1918. (Note that this is not a scale drawing.) This shows a Railway Mail Service “Standard” 15'-0" Narrow Gauge Mail Apartment. Note that the mail cases are arranged in a “U” shape with its bottom against the amidships partition of the car. This was part of the 1912 regulations. Prior to this time, the “U” shape had its bottom against the end wall of the car. Click pic for enlargement.


SUMMARY

CC No. #3 #4 #5
1885 U.P. No. #1323 #1324 #1325
1891 UPD&G No. #1323 #1324 #1325
1899 C&S No. #110 #111 #112
1906 C&S No. #10 #11 #12
Car Type B-M-X (1885) / Baggage-mail (1906)
Delivery Date December 1880
Acquired From Union Pacific Railway
Cost $2,472.83 each
Length Over Endsills 40'-2" (1885) / 40'-0" (1916)
Length Over Buffers 42'-0" (1916)
Truck Centers 30'-0" (1916)
Wheel Size 24" (1885) / 26" (1916)
Truck Wheelbase 5'-0" (1916)
Width 8'-0" (1916)
Height of Body 9'-0" (1916)
Body Above Rails 36" (1916)
Clear Opening of Door   Bag door: 3'-11" wide x 5'-0˝" at center
  Mail door: 2'-6" wide x 5'-5" high
Weight 16 tons (1912) / 40,300 lbs. (1916)
Platform Roof      
Heating Stoves
Lighting Oil lamps
Interior Finish Buff walls, white ceiling (1916)
Termination Date Jan 1929 May 1939
Termination Method Dismantled Dismantled


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