Re: Eight wheel Caboose on C&Sng?

Posted by Ron Rudnick on
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Blackhawk, Idaho, the same place that the Eagle Rock shops are located
As to some of your questions, about 10 years back, I shifted my interest from trains to raising a rare kind of tropical fish, called killie fish.  As I have gotten older feeding 30 tanks of fish turned into a major chore, so have come back to trains.  But alas, some of my notes are missing.
In the pre-Trumbull days, the UP shifted many of their excess NG cars, both KC and U&N, after they were standard gauged to Colorado.  In that way they were able to charge the DL&G and the UPD&G for rental.  That is how several U&N and OSL&UN end up being counted in inventories.    
U&N #1601 I think ends up becoming part of the Oregon Short Line, but not positive
D&NO #2016 to UPD&G #1782, I don't think so.  Why, I don't recall, I think it had something to do with info in Hal Wagnor's "Colorado Route"?, now missing.
As for U&N caboose cars coming to DSP&P, have you talked with the guys restoring C&S #1008?  Summer of 2014, I had a long conversation with them and he was thinking that it might have come from the U&N.
As for how it got on the DSP&P roster is an unknown.  There is no paper work.  
But on the other hand, there is a photo of a string of U&N box cars on the Sumpter Valley, and in amongst them is a DSP&P box car.  
Yes, the Guides are still available, now up to $17.50 each.  
As for updates, I have found a lot of new material, new cars, for the D&RG and was just about two-thirds finished when my puter took a dive April 30 and it has been a total fight to get a new one up and running in mid January.  My backup lost the D&RG file, so have to start all over.
I have long wanted to start a blog similar to this one, but I am still having some problems
As for the car set off in Leadville, it looks to be a little too long to have been a narrow gauge car.