Re: New Home for RPO #119

hank Wrote:
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> mrwalsh85 Wrote:
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> > Good stuff!
> >
> > Is this a car that may have been used behind
> > T12's??
>
> Yes. And no.
>
> Built 1882 as Mail Car #20 (D&RG with iron work
> from Billmeyer & Small)
> 4/87 to Postal Car #7
> 5/88 to Excursion Car #572
> 6/1906 to Mail & Baggage #119
> 4/37 modernized for Shavano & San Juan service
> (mostly on San Juan)
> 3/51 retired, to work train service.
> 1981 to D&SNG RR
>
> Hank, who is now only about 5' from his books, at
> least for a while.

Don't forget that it spent 14 years a business car G(2nd). 1892-1906.

Jeff Taylor
CRRM curator of equipment and rolling stock.