Cars
| Number | Builder | Type | Date | Length | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-5 | flatcars | 1888 | 17 ft (5.2 m) | #3 rebuilt to coal car #14 | |
| 6-13 | coal cars | 1888 | 17 ft | ||
| 14-17 | coal cars | 17 ft | |||
| 18-37 | Lima Locomotive Works | ore cars | 1887 | 17 ft 7 in (5.36 m) | originally 1/2 cord capacity rebuilt to 3/4 cord capacity |
| 38-87 | Lima Locomotive Works | ore cars | 1888 | 17 ft 7 in | one cord capacity |
| 88-155 | Lima Locomotive Works | ore cars | 1889 | 17 ft 7 in | one card capacity |
| 300 | Gilpin | water car | 23 ft (7.0 m) | 2,200 US gallons (8,300 l; 1,800 imp gal) capacity | |
| 1st #400 | Gilpin | caboose | 1904 | 13 ft 2 in (4.01 m) | destroyed 1912 |
| 2nd #400 | Colorado and Southern Railway | caboose | 1912 | 14 ft 2 in (4.32 m) | |
| 401 | Colorado and Southern Railway | caboose | 1913 | 14 ft 2 in | |
| 500-505 | excursion cars | 1888 | 21 ft (6.4 m) | one rebuilt to flatcar 2nd #4; one rebuilt to rail & boiler car #01 in 1906; one used as parts for caboose #401 in 1913; last one (#500) renumbered #1 in 1915 |
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Famous quotes containing the word cars:
“What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“When, at rare intervals, some thought visits one, as perchance he is walking on a railroad, then, indeed, the cars go by without his hearing them. But soon, by some inexorable law, our life goes by and the cars return.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)