CB&Q CABOOSE #3919?

3919 is the number.

Not according to the Historical society.  The CW-1's were 3909-3914 and the CW-2's were 3927-3936

Thanks, CWEX.  I pulled up that site but could not get a breakout of Colorado and

Southern cabooses....and the one I just finished was C&S #204 from a 1905 builder's

photo.  I searched C&S (and struck a gold mine bibliography of Colorado RR and ghost

town books, more than I've ever seen before), but could not find a roster of C&S waycars.   This one I want to start on is not a generic side door like the Train Craft kit, but somebody modeled this after a somewhat unusual prototype.  With the different metal side steps, I'd think from an old kit (like Vandenboom I keep trying to

track down, and my model of #204 just finished had metal but different steps that made it also look to be from a, different, kit).  Remaining decals pn the second are CB&Q 3919, apparently a fantasy, so on to find reality.

C&S 204 was a pre-1912 number.  

1st 204 was renumbered 2nd 214, in '06, dismantled 7-28

2nd 204 was a side-door waycar, renumbered 10503 in 19192.  Destroyed 1917, rebuilt in 1917.  End platforms added in 1920, rebuilt in 1944.  Retired 1968, donated to Park County Historical Society in Bailey CO.

Man, you would really enjoy the 2 CB&Q waycar books.

ChipR

I thought I saw one at the March meet...I should of picked it up but I didn't....errrr and I am getting into the CB&Q to.  Uh some day I'll learn.

Bailey, dang!, I will have to go take a look at that, on the way to the Como stone

engine house and Fairplay..sounds like they have different side door, though.

Plans for C&S 204, based on that builder's photo, are on page 118 of the Burlington Waycar Drawing Book.  It is the early side-door waycar, where the side door is the only means of entrance and egress.  

ChipR

That drawing book is $80 bucks, and the waycar book is $125.  To restore two five buck junk box cars (where new trucks and couplers are more than the cars, and a hunt to find) $205.00 seems illogical.   The second car, while lettered for the CB&Q by previous owner and probable builder, might be a fantasy, and not worth $125 to find out.  I think my MoPac caboose book was maybe $60.00, and I have no MoPac caboose

models, although I just saw that branches of the MoPac also owned those well-traveled

second-hand FEC side door cars owned by the Great Western, so I guess I should gin out some of those FEC cars in quantity (when I get around to it).  No question that I

would like to own those two books.....maybe later on the used market....