Help Identify this C&S Water Tank

[Jim Courtney]

There, that is better.  The "Big Size" button on Nabble was limiting the size to only 750 pixels wide! Thanks Jeff!

So, to repost the other photos in this series:

[Robert McFarland]

Hayes Hendricks' DSP&P/C&S Passenger car website has info on the excursion cars under the C&S car locator heading.One of the earliest,built in 1883,is shown in Pitkin in the 80s.It is shown in the article describing DSP&P coach 7.

[Chris Walker]

http://cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/69880/rv/singleitem/rec/14

[Jim Courtney]

Wrong again about my assumptions.  I didn't think the excursion cars were used after the early 1920s.

But this photo showing a Railway Conductors Special, dated July, 1928, shows the were still occasionally used into the late 1920s:


http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/42528



And Keith, who knew that the big Brooks 76 was passenger power!

[Keith Hayes]

Whatever it takes to pull the train out of the yard, Jim. ...