Coach UPD&G #193
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(2) C&S coach #62 - right side - Como, 1938. May be found at Ferrell/C&S-209. |
HISTORY
Car #466 was one of ten tourist sleepers built to plan 701 by the Pullmans Palace Car Company (lot #1612) in July and August of 1889 for service on the Denver & Rio Grande. {1} These cars, numbered #461-#470, had 12 sections rather than the usual 10 for narrow gauge cars. #466 was later refitted to have only 10 sections, but it is uncertain just when. {2} (It is interesting to note that on the C&S passenger car diagram for this car ca. 1916, that the seat to the right of each end door (as you enter) is a single seat: for what reason remains unknown.)
Pullman sold car #466 to the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf in 1896 for $1,250, and the UPD&G promptly converted it to a [presumably first-class] coach, {2} {3} and numbered it #193.
(This presents an interesting conundrum, since authorities are agreed on the 1896 date of sale, while both authorsDigerness, whose captions are often wrong about dates, and Poor, whose captions are viewed as authoritativeagree on the 1894 date of the photograph. If not sold to the UPD&G until 1896, and used in D&RG Pullman service, how does #193 show up in UPD&G colors in 1894?)
When the Colorado & Southern inherited #193 in 1899, it was renumbered #153. When the C&S renumbered cars in 1906, it was renumbered #62.
In 1938, coach #62 was stripped down and converted to a bunk car for the use of the lines dismantler, Platt Rogers, Inc. It was dismantled in May 1939 and the body sold to Chris Sorenson of Longmont, Colorado.
