Re: Mystery DL&G outfit car

Posted by Dave Eggleston on Jul 15, 2023; 6:35pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Mystery-DL-G-outfit-car-tp18906p18923.html

Todd Hackett wrote

There appears to be a platform on the end, so it's likely that the body had been longer (maybe much longer) at one point. There's no sign of a side cargo door, so if this was a boxcar conversion, they did more than just add some windows. I don't see any sign of needle beams, which would have made it easier to estimate how much of the original car was left.

The platform is a good catch.

As I was digging into this I wondered if this was a standard gauge caboose, work car or even cobbled passenger car of some type. But why wouldn't that number show up in a roster? Well, I think there's a good chance that some of the home builds didn't in fact show up in any rosters--two examples I can think of are the two GSL&P cabooses, 01542 and 026552.

A standard gauge car on trucks was easier to get to Boulder than a narrow gauge car. The next trick would be transferring and moving it up Boulder Canyon to Four Mile Canyon. It seems odd that they'd do that when a narrow gauge boxcar would suffice for a shed. 19th century thinking that I'm not able to wrap my head around yet.