Hi guys,
may I interject here. This is just slightly off topic. Victor Miller did not purchase any cars from the C&S. I realize I must now duck but hear me out. From an RGS point of view I'm sure Mr. Miller is viewed with great reverence and the reason everyone believes he purchased those 108 cars is because certain publications and collectors made that assumption and perpetuated it. But the C&S records tell a very different story. As you know Victor Miller was a Denver Lawyer. I suppose the operative word here is "lawyer". I will sumerize by saying he found a way to sue the C&S and the 108 cars were settlement to that suit. My investigation into those records strongly led me to believe that it was very much a calculated maneuver on Millers part. He paid nary a dime for those cars and forced the C&S to make major repairs to many of them to boot. It is open and quite impossible to prove that his action may have saved some C&S equipment from an earlier demise and it's not like the C&S needed those cars anyway but my personal feelings toward him are about what you'd expect me to feel for any lawyer.
Sorry for getting off topic.
Derrell