Re: 1902 coal car lettering details

Posted by Jim Courtney on
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As far as lettering the side sills of the 1902 coal cars, I would take a cue from the 1902 flat cars. They were built at the same time, to the same plans, essentially the same coal cars without the coal box and stakes.

See Doug Heitkamp's "Pipes on Flats" photo, the foreground flat is a 1902 car:



The end beam detail should also be the same as the 1902 coal cars.

There are some clear photos of 1902 flats c1910-1912 in the R. Robb Pictorial VIII, pages 55 and 56 as well. Those cars 1090 (page 55), 1094, 1088 and 1082 (page 56) show the road name on the side sill as:

I         I I               I I  Colorado I I & Southern I I     1094   I I              I I         I

To my eye, the vague and distant side sill lettering on both the Idaho Springs coal cars above, are consistent with this arrangement. The side sills of the Peninsular coal cars are a different matter. They had to work around extra stake pockets for things to look symmetric.

Jim