Re: 1902 coal car lettering details

Posted by Chris Walker on
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Ron Rudnick wrote

Car #4624 is former DSP&P 26' Litchfield coal car #8035.
The Colorado Central coal car was the standard CC coal car.  
There is nothing special about it being on a DSP&P train, as the two roads commonly interchanged cars.  
Mineral Belt II, p367 shows a former CC coal car, lettered C&S #4595

Ron,

what are your thoughts about the movement of an obviously empty that far away and headed away from Colorado Central rails?  A consignment of Baldwin Coal for a Clear Creek customer perhaps?   Were the per diem charges in effect back then.   All this is intriguing to me, given the foreign aspect coming from a Government Railways perspective.