[CBQ] C&S Standard Gague Way Cars

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Greetings everyone,

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

I need some help, please.

On my “to do list” are two models of Colorado & Southern way cars, or more correctly two models of way car #10538,  frequenter on the Denver Division (aka the “Joint Line”),  at two different time periods (May 1938 and July 1951).

 My interests are twofold:

1.      An amateur academic in the AT&SF’s Denver Division history and operations, and

2.      A HO model of Colorado Springs with emphasis on operations.

Hol. Wagner’s “Colorado Road” indicates that #10538 was built as a side door way car in 1907 and Sutton’s “Trackside Around Pueblo” indicates that it was rebuilt in 1944 (after the 10598- 10612 series ?).

 At least some of the C&S way cars had steel underframes to enable a helper engine to push on the way car of heavy trains such as trains carrying hematite out of CF&I’s Sunrise Mine, WY bound for smelters near Pueblo, CO.

 My questions are:

1.      Were all C&S way cars built to the same (approximate) floor plan?

2.      Was #10538 rebuilt in 1944 to remove side doors and the internal layout altered to ‘standard’?

3.      Was the #10538 rebuild on a steel underframe?

An internet search indicates a C&S way car numbered #10538 is being or has been restored in Pueblo.

Has anyone an idea who owns the car?

 

Mark Sellars

South Australia

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