Re: DSP&P Passenger Car Research

Posted by Keith Hayes on Mar 23, 2025; 4:46pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/DSP-P-Passenger-Car-Research-tp20585p20612.html

One thing is for sure: never say never!

I checked my Abridged Edition of the Pictorial Supplement and spied a photo of an excursion car, supposedly in Pitkin, on page 288. The photo is from 1885.

The South Platte was popular with picnicers, and I swear there were weekend excursions to Dome Rock, which seem likely to have had an open excursion car on the end. These trains would have been in addition to the Fish Trains, which were flag-stop affairs that ran Denver to Grant in the morning and returned in the afternoon. Fish Trains were a coach and combination baggage car.

The Denver-Leadville train was generally a coach and RPO, except for one period when the RPO ran Denver-Como and the RPO was traded for a single-door baggage car between Como and Leadville. This occured in the late-20s, as I recall.

Once aware of some of these nuances--as Mr. Courtney is--you can better date a photograph.