Pictures of Box Cars of the Colorado & Southern
Compiled by Donald Ray Burger
Attorney at Law
There are lots of pictures of C & S box cars but only a few have legible numbers. The ones I have found follow:

Colorado Central Number 10: NGCSP page 68

Number 7596:
NGCSP page 120

Number 8114:
SPL page 189

Number 8167:
SPL page 189

Number 8226:
GL page 142

Number 8152:
SPL page 227

Number 825?:
SPL page 224

Number 8277:
CSng page 49

Number 827?:
UCC page 31

Number 8296:
CSng page 212

Number 8309:
CSng page 213

Number 8310:
NGCSP page 197
UCC page 240

Number 8316:
NGCSP page 140

Number 8322:
SPL page 228

Number 8355:
NGCSP page 140

Number 836?:
NGCSP page 140

Number 84??:
NGCSP page 197

Number 8400:
NGCSP page 209

UPD&G box car lettering:
NGCSP page 147

Closeup of Boxcar:
UCC page 31

Box Car:
UCC page 133

String of Box Cars:
NGCSP page 119

Abbreviations:

CSng = C & S ng (Colorado & Southern Narrow Gauge) by Mallory Hope Ferrell. Pruett Publishing Company. 1981. First Edition, First printing.

CCGC = Central City and Gilpin County (Then and Now). by Robert L. Brown. The Caxton Printers, Ltd. 1994.

GL = Georgetown and the Loop, by P.R. "Bob" Griswold, Richard H. Kindig and Cynthia Trombly. Rocky Mountain Railroad Club. 1988. First Edition, 2d printing.

NGCSP = Narrow Gauge to Central and Silver Plume: Route of the Famed Georgetown Loop. (Colorado Rail Annual Number 10) by Cornelius W. Hauck, The Colorado Railroad Museum, 1972. 4th printing.

SPL =The South Park Line: A Concise History, (Colorado Rail Annual Number 12) by Gordon S. Chappell, Robert W. Richardson and Cornelius W. Hauck, The Colorado Railroad Museum, 1974. First Edition.

UCC = Up Clear Creek on the Narrow Gauge (Modeling the Colorado & Southern), by Harry W. Brunk. Benchmark Publications Ltd. 1990. 2d printing.

mail comments to burger@burger.com
[Go Back to My C & S Index]

[Go Back to My Railroad Index]

[Go Back to My Home Page]