Passenger Cars of the Colorado Central

Baggage Car #1 - Page 2

CCRR U.P. 1885 UPD&G 1890/97 C&S 1899 C&S 1906
#1 #1036 #1036/#9 #101 #3

C&S baggage car #3 at Baileys, 1932.

(4) C&S baggage car #3.


PHOTOGRAPHS & PLANS

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

# DATE PHOTOG. LOCATION SOURCE PAGE C REMARKS
  1873/4 Joseph Collier, or Perry & Bohm Forks Creek Abbott 156(u)   Photo somewhat distant.
Digerness3 331 DD
DPL WHC Z-3395 CH
Hauck 38(d) DP
Kindig 57(d)  
  1875 Ball Beaver Brook Abbott 101   Excellent side view of baggage #1
  Aft 1875 Joseph Collier Beaver Brook Abbott 100   Photo generally dark and does not show entire car
Digerness3 353(d)  
Kindig 52(u)  
(1) 1878 Aug 17 Unknown Georgetown Digerness3 268 DD CC baggage #1
Hauck 57(u) CH
Poor 14(ME) RK
Speas 8 RR
(2) 1885/89 W.H. Jackson Central City switchback Digerness3 406 DD Digerness3-406 and Poor-107(ME) are panoramic; Digerness3-410 and Ferrell C&S-22 are close-up.
Digerness3 410 DD
Ferrell/C&S 22 MF
Poor 107(ME) CH
  no date H.H. Buckwalter Roscoe Kindig 247(d) SC UPD&G baggage #1036
  ca. 1900 Unknown Denver Digerness3 379(d) DD C&S baggage #101
Hauck 120(u) KS
Kindig 244 CR
  c. 1905 L.C. McClure Platte Canyon Wagner 53 CS C&S baggage #101
(3) 1918 July O.C. Perry South Denver Kindig 406 OP C&S baggage #3
DPL WHC OP-6204 DP
  1929 Aug R.B. Jackson Como Chappell 216 RJ C&S baggage #3
Digerness2 74/5 DD
Ferrell/C&S 87 RJ
Kindig 408 RJ
  1932 Aug R.B. Jackson Baileys Digerness1 181(u) DD C&S baggage #3
Ferrell/C&S 98 RJ
  1965 Jul 25 J.W. Maxwell Longmont Poole 174 JM C&S baggage #3, almost broadside, side with stove, 25th and Bowles
Maxwell 4835 JM
  1965 Jul 25 J.W. Maxwell Longmont Maxwell 4834 JM C&S baggage #3, almost broadside, farm building by door, 25th and Bowles
  1965 Jul 25 J.W. Maxwell Longmont Maxwell 4836 JM C&S baggage #3, almost end-on, farm building by door, 25th and Bowles, from end other than 4833


The John Maxwell Collection offers plans for C&S baggage cars #1-4, all floor plans. It is their plan C-114.

C&S baggage car #3 diagram

Car diagram for C&S baggage car #3 updated through 1916. (Note that this is not a scale drawing.) Click pic for enlargement


SUMMARY

CC No. #1
1885 U.P. No. #1036
1891 UPD&G No. #1036
1897 UPD&G No. #9
1899 C&S No. #101
1906 C&S No. #3
Car Type Baggage
Delivery Date January 1873
Acquired From Union Pacific Railway
Cost $2,300
Length Over Endsills 35'-2" (1885) / 35'-0" (1916)
Length Over Buffers 37'-10" (1916, after platforms removed)
Truck Centers 25'-0"
Wheel Size 24" (1885) / 26" (1916)
Truck Wheelbase 5'-0" (1916)
Width 7'-6" (1916}
Height of Body 9'-2" (1916)
Body Above Rails 34½" (1916)
Clear Opening of Door 3'-7¼" x 5'-5" (1916)
Weight 13 tons (1912) / 33,740 lbs. (1916)
Platform Roof Duckbill (1885) / Bullnose (1916)
Heating Stove
Lighting Oil lamps
Interior Finish “Painted St'd.”
Termination Date January 1939
Termination Method Retired. Body reportedly being used as a shed at Longmont, Colorado. Possibly scrapped 2004.


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23 August 2007

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