Re: D&RGW 1st Class (excluding sleepers) cars

D&RG(W) 1st Class (Chair/Parlor) cars in brief:

Chair Cars:

14-16 Billmeyer & Small, 1878 to 400-402 1885

14/400 retired 1899
15/401 rebuiilt to Parlor 1924, sold to NDeM 4/1942
16/402(new number may not have ever been applied) to Buss. Car N, later 1st B-2 1913 then 2nd B-3 1917

24 B&S, 1879 to pay car 1883 bus car F (1st) 1885, oufit 0452 1909

25-32 Jackson & Sharp, 1880 to 403-410 1885

25/403 to parlor car 1924, to Alamosa (2nd) 1937
26/404 to coach 350(1st) 1896. parlor car Alamosa (1st) 1904. wrecked 1912
27/405 to coach 351(1st) 1896, parlor car Durango(1st), wrecked 1910
28/406 to parlor Silverton 1904, Salida 1937, sold to NDeM 1942
29/407 sold to D&RGWRy 1886, std gauged 1892, off roster by 1899
30/408 same history as 29/407
31/409 to parlor car Pagosa[1] 1903, Durango(3rd) 1937 sold to Knott's 1951
32/410 to parlor car Camp Bird[1] 1902, Chama 1937, sold to Knott's 1951

Emigrant Sleeper 106, built by D&RG 1883, 455 in 1885 to Parlor car Durango(2nd) 1910, to Gunnison 1937, sold to NDeM 1942

Buffet/sleeper Ouray Pullman 1883 to parlor Ouray[1] 1902, retired 1938

[1] these cars had Pullman style seating.

so in sum, 3 Alamosas, 2 Durangos, 1 each for Ouray, Pagosa, Camp Bird, Gunnison and Chama

also at least two of the early Chair Cars rebuilt with parlor seating in 1924 (401, 403)

hank