Re: Coach/Smoker #256 comes back home

Bruce R. Pier Wrote:
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> It's not unlikely that it might not even be the
> first car with this number. I know of several
> instances where a car has been destroyed and
> another one was assigned that number, either a new
> one or one rebuilt from older stock.

Another mystery car is oddball D&RG coach/baggage 211 (still around) which made a debut to the roster around the same period and is obviously a older car with a duckbill roof and single pane side windows. I wonder if there is a possibility that if either cars 211 or 256 of today came from the Rio Grande & Santa Fe Railroad which was "consolidated" into the D&RG in 1908? The RG&SF had 3 or 4 passenger cars with unknown disposition from what I can find.