Hi everyone! It's nearly August, so here's the last picks for July. Keith with a DTC Cable Car Mike VE2TRV with a CP RDC-4 jwb3 with a quartet of BNSF power BoxcabE50 in Whitefish, MT RBrodzinsky with the Coast Starlight badlandnp with a Maryland Midland geep Hardcoaler with a CSX freight Mr. SP with some WP and r_i_straw with some Amtrak
Very good set, and I agree that the cable car is a real beauty. The restoration work puts the focus on the attention to detail put into this unit. The delicate pinstripes and flourishes show that when something was worth doing, it was done right!
A quick description of DTC #40, from ipernity.com: Remarkably, one of the Denver Tramway's cable cars survives. Pamela Bestall, director of the Forney Transportation Museum, explains that the car was built in 1886 by the Laclede Car Company of Saint Louis, as horse car 271. It was converted to cable car 40 in 1888 or later. It was later renumbered 901. When the Denver Tramway converted from cable to electric operation, most of the cable cars were burned. This car survived and was used as a tool shed by the Denver Regional Transportation District. When a Mister Horn, a former RTD employee, heard that the car (tool shed) was going to be destroyed, he arranged to purchase it and moved it to his ranch near Conifer. After the museum purchased it, Bill Wright of Fort Collins, Colorado coordinated its extensive restoration.
