Re: Surviving California Narrow Gauge Passenger Cars

Jeff Taylor Wrote:
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> Don't forget the Esmeralda Brian!

My face is red with embarrassment. Not only that but also an South Pacific Coach coach body next to it. Both undercover without trucks adjacent to coach #5 at Southern California RR Museum.

That is what I get for responding late in the evening after a long day of driving.

SP 10 business car named "Esmeralda" built by Virginia & Truckee shops in Carson City, Nev. for the Carson & Colorado in 1896 as C&C #10
built with a cupola (because H.M. Yerington liked the cupola on the converted caboose-combine #2)
Reconfigured without cupola and with interior partitions by the SP in 1903 at which time the name "Esmeralda" was added (name of one of the Nevada counties the narrow gauge ran through)
Retired after former N-C-O business car arrived in 1929.

SPC 39 Second Class Coach built by Carter Bros. in 1882 lettering remnants on the letter board indicate it was later lettered "Southern Pacific"
later used as housing for track section foreman in southern Salinas Valley by the SP; later purchased by the foreman and later gifted to the Museum
His descendants have held family reunions at the Museum.

Brian Norden