C&S Coach #60
DESCRIPTIONC&S coach #152 ... (What can we say?) HISTORYThe C&S car diagram page for coach #60 says it was built in 1873 by the Pullmans Palace Car Company. We have no reason to dispute that information, though taking it with a grain of salt, knowing how incorrect is some of the other builder information recorded on these pages. All four published rosters concur as to both date and builder. The Wagner roster says coach #60 was originally built for the OSL (it also says erroneously that it became UPD&G #188), but the Poole roster says it was built for the Utah & Northern (under common ownership by the Union Pacific). Chappell {5} says U&N coach #131 came to the UPD&G with U&N Coach #140 (which became UPD&G #189). The two came in 1896, in exchange for standard gauge mail car #1162, after it was discovered that U.P. subsidiaries had surplus narrow gauge cars, several lines having been converted to standard gauge. The two were placed on standard gauge trucks and delivered to Denver. U&N coach #131 became UPD&G coach #192. When the UPD&G property was reorganized as the Colorado & Southern in 1899, it became coach #152. During the 1906 renumbering, it became #60. It was rebuilt in 1915 as were so many other C&S passenger cars, and it survived until October of 1929, when it was dismantled. PHOTOGRAPHS & PLANS
We are aware of no drawings or plans for this car.
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