Re: NNG Car History help
| June 18, 2020 03:13PM |
The car is Great Western Railway (Colorado) caboose 1002. Built in 1906 (or at least acquired by the GWR in 1906), sold to the Black Hills Central in 1963 for $400.00. Why it has what appear to be D&RGW cast tender steps on the platforms is anyone's guess, though photos show it with them since at least the early 1950's.
Below is a letter from the GW to the Black Hills about selling the caboose;
Further letters show that it took the GW until December 15, 1963 to have the car ready to interchange with the C&S and it presumably made it to Hill City on its own wheels.
Neat car, the GWR is, in my opinion, an underappreciated bit of Colorado railroad history.
Jason Midyette
Below is a letter from the GW to the Black Hills about selling the caboose;
Further letters show that it took the GW until December 15, 1963 to have the car ready to interchange with the C&S and it presumably made it to Hill City on its own wheels.
Neat car, the GWR is, in my opinion, an underappreciated bit of Colorado railroad history.
Jason Midyette
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Dick Bell | June 18, 2020 04:24PM |
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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