Brian Norden Wrote:
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> hank Wrote:
>
> > Same era, some of the regular Pullmans met the
> > same fates but most of them went to Mexico.
> >
> > Hank
>
> Two cars saw service in our Great Basin.
>
> The Tonopah RR bought two cars through a equipment
> broker in 1904. These had 10 regular Pullman
> sections and a buffet for drink and light food
> service. Then in 1911 the cars were sold to the
> Nevada-California-Oregon. One car was retired in
> 1916 and other lasted to the end being retired in
> 1928 and set on the ground at Wendel.
>
> These were Pullman cars CIMARRON and OGDEN (later
> DOLORES)..
> On the Tonopah the cars carried the names MIZPAH
> and SILVER TOP; named for the two big mines in
> Tonopah.
> On the N-C-O the cars were named MADELINE and
> WAVERLY (later ALTURAS).
>
> Brian Norden
Pullman sold car #466 to the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf in 1896 for $1,250, and the UPD&G promptly converted it to a [presumably first-class] coach, {2} {3} and numbered it #193.
(This presents an interesting conundrum, since authorities are agreed on the 1896 date of sale, while both authors—Digerness, whose captions are often wrong about dates, and Poor, whose captions are viewed as authoritative—agree on the 1894 date of the photograph. If not sold to the UPD&G until 1896, and used in D&RG Pullman service, how does #193 show up in UPD&G colors in 1894?)
When the Colorado & Southern inherited #193 in 1899, it was renumbered #153. When the C&S renumbered cars in 1906, it was renumbered #62.
In 1938, coach #62 was stripped down and converted to a bunk car for the use of the line’s dismantler, Platt Rogers, Inc. It was dismantled in May 1939 and the body sold to Chris Sorenson of Longmont, Colorado.