Officer Car #050 - Page 2

DSP&P	U.P. 1885	DL&G 1889	C&S 1899	C&S 1906
#050	#025	Rebuilt 1886 to U.P. Officers Car #06	Gone	Gone
		Second #025	#B-3	#912
If you're looking only for second #025, it has a page of its own.

HISTORY

Office car #050 was begun in the South Park’s Denver shops in May of 1880 and completed that October. It was renumbered #025 in 1885 by the Union Pacific, then almost immediately rebuilt (1886), put on standard gauge trucks and transferred to the Oregon Short Line & Utah Northern Railroad as U.P. Officers Car #06 (2nd). It was sold in 1912 to the narrow gauge Nevada-California-Oregon Railroad, where it became their business car Fairport. It passed to the Southern Pacific (narrow gauge) in 1926 when it took control of the N-C-O. In 1928 it became their #20 and was used as a replacement for their business car Esmerelda. It later became their MOW #5. It was taken out of service in 1944 and was used for awhile as a bunk house in San Jose, CA, where it was destroyed by fire.

(4) above. Left side of S.P. business car #20 (assuming observation end (right) is toward end of train). This is the same orientation as photos #1 and #2 above. (5) below. Right side of S.P. business car #20 (assuming observation end (left) is toward end of train). Photos can be found at Turner-68 and Ferrell/SP-xx.

For some reason, the Denver, Leadville & Gunnison decided to replace U.P. #025 on its roster with a new officer car. That is a whole new story, and will be told on a new page devoted to SECOND #025.

PHOTOGRAPHS & PLANS

(Photos with source and page in blue are best to show car details.)

#	DATE	PHOTOG.	LOCATION	SOURCE	PAGE	C	REMARKS
(1)	1884 Mar 29	W.H. Jackson	Georgetown Loop	Ferrell/C&S	27	CH	DSP&P officer car #050
				Ferrell/SoPk	97(u)	AM
				*Hauck*	82	CH
				*Kindig*	220	CH
				*Mangan*	134	CH
				*Wagner*	12*	CH
(2)	1885/86	W.H. Jackson	High Bridge	*Kindig*	231	CH	DSP&P officer car #025
(3)						KM	U.P. business car #06
(4)	no date	Unknown	Unknown	*Turner*	68(m)	NA	S.P. business car #20.
(5)	no date	Unknown	Unknown	*Turner*	68(d)	NA	S.P. business car #20.
(5)	no date	Unknown	Unknown	*Ferrell/SP*	xx		S.P. business car #20.
	1946	Unknown	Bayshore, CA	*Ferrell/SoPk*	97(d)	AM	Unlettered car identified as S.P. work car MW5 (former DSP&P #050)
* Very small.

There is a not-to-scale floor plan of #050 ca. 1885 in Ehrenberger/UP. The same floor plan, together with a scale drawing and floor plan of Southern Pacific #20, will be found in Barger/UP. (But note that the platform roof on Barger’s drawing is not representative of either set of photos.)

SUMMARY

DSP&P No.	#050
1885 U.P. No.	#025
1889 DL&G No.	Gone from property
1899 C&S No.	Gone from property
1906 C&S No.	Gone from property
Car Type	Officer (1885)
Capacity	2 Sections, 1 Stateroom, 1 Office
Delivery Date	October 1880
Acquired From	DSP&P Denver Shops
Length Over Endsills	42'-5" (43'-3½" S.P./Barger)
Length Over Buffers	49'-1 5/8" (S.P./Barger)
Truck Centers	40'-5" (S.P./Barger)
Wheel Size	24" (1885) 36" (S.P. Barger)
Truck Wheelbase	6'-6" (S.P./Barger)
Width	8'-2" (S.P./Barger)
Height of Body	8'-9 ½" (S.P./Barger)
Body Above Rails	3'-9" (S.P./Barger)
Weight	90,650 lbs. (S.P./Barger)
Platform Roof	Bullnose (From earliest photos onward -- Barger's looks like a crumpled broken duckbill, perhaps a convention of the S.P. passenger car diagrams)
Heating	Baker heater (1885) Safety steam hot water circulation (S.P./Barger)
Lighting	Pintsch Gas (S.P./Barger)
Interior Finish	Unknown
Termination Date	c. 1886
Termination Method	Rebuilt and taken off property by U.P.

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Passenger Cars of the South Park

Officer Car #050 - Page 2

HISTORY

PHOTOGRAPHS & PLANS

SUMMARY

23 August 2007