Re: Need info on early C&S inherited coal cars -- how were they numbered??

Posted by Jim Courtney on
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Thanks Ken,

Dave Eggleston was kind enough to send me multiple ORERs from 1899 to 1907.

This is fascinating reading, especially the UPD&G/DL&G car numbers listed with the "plan to renumber" in the 4600-4999 series.

I always believed the conventional wisdom that the new C&S hurriedly ran all the inherited rolling stock through the car shops, standard and narrow gauge, as fast as they could, to repaint and re-letter everything with "The Colorado Road" lettering. Folks in Colorado had an unfavorable view of the UP system as a corporate entity, and the new management wanted to divorce the C&S from that image.

I figured that if they started in early 1899, most everything would have been re-lettered to C&S by the summer of 1901.  But the UPD&G/DL&G car numbers persist on the ORERs as late as May of 1903. So it appears that I can have a couple of models lettered in the predecessor reporting marks, heavily weathered perhaps:



UP 3210 is listed as a Litchfield 12 ton, 26 foot flat car, but has obviously been converted into a coal car.




It would be tempting to have one of each--I have the decal sets from The Leadville Shops.


One other neat finding. Ron's UPD&G/DL&G book's roster (that Dave also sent) lists all the Litchfield coal cars as rated as 12-tons, save two: DL&G 8036 and 8038 were rated as 14-tons, one being renumbered 4625.  That is consistent with the Kokomo photos showing 4624 having been upgraded with UP 14-ton, type C trucks as seen up-thread.

Again, thanks to all who have taken the time to answer my questions.