Re: DSP&P Passenger Car Research

Posted by Tundracamper on Mar 23, 2025; 5:18pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/DSP-P-Passenger-Car-Research-tp20585p20613.html

Keith Hayes wrote

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.

What a great find! I need to look through those images more carefully. The caption clearly states the trip was from St. Elmo over Alpine Pass. I would think it would have been pretty cool at that altitude in September. I can only imagine going thru that small tunnel, in the dark, with all the cinders swirling around.  

That clearly answers my question re: Alpine Tunnel and observation cars. I see that pages listed in the index under “excursion trains.”  There are other images listed. It sure would be nice to have a fully digitized indexed list of all the images with full keywords!  I would not have thought about “excursion” vs “observation.”  Had anyone made such a list for this an Poor’s book?  Sounds like a great use for AI, cross-referencing railroad terms and all:)  Shame I have no clue how to do that.

Page 3 shows at least four excursion cars at Morrison.

Thanks!!