C&S Coaches #74 - #76 - Page 2
| C&S 1900 |
C&S 1906 |
| #172 |
#74 |
| #173 |
#75 |
| #174 |
#76 |
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(4) Coach #75, RPO car #13 and locomotive
#9—train #71—at Boreas Pass on the return trip from Leadville 10
April 1937. This was the last passenger run from Leadville to Denver.
Richard B. Jackson photo at
Chappell-230
and
Ferrell/C&S-109.
For those who are under the mistaken impression this run was made by coach #76, we
include below an enhanced blow-up of a critical portion of the car side
from the above photo. |
In 1938, coaches #74 and #75 were among the cars stripped down and converted to
bunk cars for the use of the line’s dismantler, Platt Rogers, Inc. They then sat
on the rip track in Leadville until dismantled in May 1939 and their bodies sold
to Chris Sorenson of Longmont, Colorado.
Coach #76 was refurbished and exhibited with RPO #13 and 2-6-0
#9 at the New York World’s Fair in 1939/40. After the Fair the three pieces of
equipment were stored at the CB&Q shops in Aurora, Illinois, where they were
joined in the mid '40s by business car #911, which had been stored at Denver.
In 1948, coach #76 was repainted as the “Deadwood Dick” and ran with the
Mogul and the two other cars as the Deadwood Central at the Chicago Railroad
Fair (1948-1949). This equipment was returned to the Burlington shops where it
stayed until 1957, when it was moved to the Black Hills Central Railroad at Hill
City, SD (then owned by the Burlington). In 1988, all were donated to the
Colorado Historical Society and moved to Georgetown Loop RR at Silver Plume,
Colorado.
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C&S mogul #9, baggage-mail #13, coach #76 and some
“Dolly Vardens” at the Chicago Railroad Fair, 1949. From a post card sold
at the fair. Hayes Hendricks Collection. Also in b/w at
Wagner-44(u). |
