Re: 1902 coal car lettering details

Posted by Ron Rudnick on
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Chris:  
As Jim posted the UP was running the show.  They had no qualms about running CC cars into South Park territory and vice versa.  
There has long been a taboo about the Colorado narrow gauge interchanging cars.  The truth is that they did interchange cars.  
One great resource is the Hallack Lumber Company book collection at the Colorado Historical Society Library.  I think in all there are close to 100 books, many of which record their shipping and receiving record which quite often list the railroad and car numbers, destination to and from and what was loaded or unloaded.
I regret that I have not been able to spend very much time searching these books, as the few notes that I have are fantastic.    
Example CC coal car #1573 brought in a load from Kenosha in January, 1886, CC #1581 Kenosha 7/87, other locations, bringing in loads Pine Grove, Buffalo, Boreas
They also exchanged cars with the D&RG.  Cars Received at Palmer Lake
7/29/88:  CC#1605, Coal, El Moro to Denver, DSP&P #24339, Merchandise iron, Bessemer to Burnham
8/7/88:   CC1566 and DSP&P #24127 Bullion, Pueblo to Mtn. City
And later, after the Kansas Central and Utah & Northern were converted the UP shipped many of their narrow gauge cars to Colorado to be used on the Colorado lines.
Photos on p.324 Pictorial of the Baldwin Branch shows a number of coal cars, including one CC coal and several U&N coal cars.