Re: D&RG "longhorns" on the C&S??

Posted by Jim Courtney on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-S-Cars-on-the-D-RGW-at-Marshall-Pass-tp7805p7839.html

I've been looking at DPL photos of Leadville and Salida, searching for any C&S cars on the D&RG--no luck yet.

I found this photo of one of the 700 series drop bottom gons hiding in a string of freight cars in Salida. Probably late teens or early 1920s, judging from the USSA hardware on adjacent boxcars:


http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/34191/rv/singleitem



The car doesn't appear to have the "longhorn" release levers and has a high brake staff on the left end, like modern drop-bottom gons. Perhaps it is a circa 1918 mid-phase rebuild that Mike mentioned, before the final rebuild of 1926. Wish I could find my copy of Sloan's compendium, misplaced a couple of weeks ago, it seems.

This might be the Salida RIP track, judging from the roof of the boxcar 3354 to the left, badly in need of roof repair.

Anyways, the drop bottom gons that Pat cites, as visiting Breckenridge and consigned to Fairplay, likely looked like this in 1923-24.