Re: Carson & Colorado #1

Ted,

You posted a similar question yesterday about C&C caboose #1.

Yes, this car still exists and it is at Laws.

It only operated on the C&C/SPng. It may have been retired even before "The Great War" (WWI). From 1906 to 1912 it would have been lettered for the SP subsidiary Nevada & California. No change of number.

The #2 which was the C&C caboose that was set up as the officer's car was sold to Inyo Development Co. (soda works at Keeler) and then sold to the Tonopah RR. It went up onto standard-gauge freight car trucks when that line was standard-gauged. Then the Tonopah went into the Tonopah & Goldfield. The car body went on the ground at Millers and then after WWII it was moved to Laws and became part of the Laws Museum. This car was sold to a private individual who resold it to the present owners who have been restoring it.

The C&C (and even the SP) had overlapping numbers -- passenger cars and locomotives and cabooses. So the C&C had a 4-4-0 locomotive #1, a coach #1 and a caboose #1.

Brian Norden