Baggage Car #1
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(2) Colorado Central baggage car #1036 on the switchback between Black Hawk and Central City. The dating of this photograph is interesting. Ferrell says it is "an early passenger train," and Digerness dates it to the "late 1870s." But it is a very small part of a huge William Jackson photo that is otherwise dated between 1885 and 1889, and this is borne out by the number on the locomotive (out of picture to right), which has the after-1885 UP style digits on its tender. Photo at Ferrell/C&S-22 and Digerness3-410 (also at Digerness3-406 and Poor-107 F-A-R away on lower leg of wye). |
HISTORY
Track was completed to Black Hawk (21.07 miles) 11 December 1872, and attention was shifted to the Georgetown extension, where track reached Floyd Hill on 24 February 1873. Meanwhile, the road had received two more passenger cars: coach #2 and baggage car #1.
Colorado Central baggage car #1 was out-shopped by the Union Pacific Railway in January 1873 at a cost of $2,300. At the 1885 renumbering by the Union Pacific it was renumbered #1036, a number it kept when the road was reorganized as the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf.
When the bankrupt UPD&G was sold to the Colorado & Southern, baggage car #1036 became C&S #101. When the C&S renumbered cars in 1906, baggage car #101 became #3. By 1915, when it was rebuilt, the windows had been sheathed over and the end the platforms had been removed.
Baggage car #3 was retired January 1939, and as late as 1965 the body was being used as a shed at Longmont, Colorado. (According to Ferrell/SoPk, it was still there as that book was written in 2003.)
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(3) C&S baggage car #3 at South Denver, July 1918. Otto Perry photo at Kindig-406. |
