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John Craft

January 27, 2006 10:34AM

Over at RyPN, someone asked a question that led me to this odd quote:
"Little railroads in New England and the Deep South particularly abound in clerestory windows of stained glass, Baker heating systems, Pintsch lights and other relics which, were they more adaptable to ravishment, would arouse the kleptomaniac in every amateur. As a matter of fact, an entire narrow-gage coach, a splendidly upholstered private car from the Colorado and Southern which, in its day, had ferried frontier millionaires of the Haw Tabor era up to Leadville, is now secreted on the estate of a Denver collector and there is no record that it got there through conventional legal channels. To the uninhibited collector of railroadiana, shoplifting in a piano store would seem a pedestrian occupation . . . "
The original edition of "MTD" is from 1947. But this edition is from 1961, and there are references to post-1950 abandonments that make it clear it's been updated. So I'm not sure when it was written.
Anybody know the story behind this quote? Is this the beginnings of the Sundown and Southern? If not, did this coach actually exist, and if so did it survive?
Bonus points if you have dirt on the "liberation."
JAC

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Mixed Train Daily, p. 277	John Craft	January 27, 2006 10:34AM
Car heists	Dick Seelye	January 28, 2006 07:59PM
Re: Car heists PIC	Bill Pratt	January 28, 2006 08:52PM
Re: Car heists PIC	Bill Pratt	January 28, 2006 08:55PM
That car	Grant Houston	January 28, 2006 09:39PM
Re: That car	Bill Pratt	January 28, 2006 10:03PM
Re: That car	Paul Gibbs	January 29, 2006 08:36AM
The facts, and the real facts (maybe)	Grant Houston	January 28, 2006 09:52PM
Re: The facts, and the real facts (maybe)	John Craft	January 29, 2006 06:18AM
Re: The facts, and the real facts (maybe) PIC	Norm	January 29, 2006 07:31AM
Another 911 pic NM PIC	Norm	January 29, 2006 07:32AM
Re: Another 911 pic NM PIC	Norm	January 29, 2006 07:32AM
RP0 13 pic NM PIC	Norm	January 29, 2006 07:35AM
Re: RP0 13 pic NM PIC	Norm	January 29, 2006 07:35AM
Coach 76 pic NM PIC	Norm	January 29, 2006 07:36AM
Thanks Norm, Nice pics NM	tom casper	January 29, 2006 07:59AM
Re: Coach 76 pic LINK	rick b	January 29, 2006 12:38PM
Re: 911	Ken Martin	January 31, 2006 12:09AM
Re: The facts, and the real facts (maybe)	Taylor Rush	January 29, 2006 11:03AM
Re: The facts, and the real facts (maybe)	Grant Houston	January 29, 2006 11:19PM
Re: The facts, and the real facts (maybe)	Everett Lueck	January 30, 2006 06:31PM
Re: The facts, and the real facts (maybe)	Charlie Mutschler	January 31, 2006 07:20AM

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