| Colorado & Southern Railway 900 at Denver, Colorado on June 8, 1962, photographer unknown, duplicate slide by Al Chione, Chuck Zeiler collection. The following is excerpted from the Burlington Route Historical Society publication Bulletin #17, OFFICE CARS, edited by Hol Wagner: First 900 was destroyed in a wreck on the FW&D in 1928. With sale of 901 and the destruction of 900, the C&S found itself without a top-rate office car for its vice president and general manager. And as 1929 dawned, the road could ill afford to buy a new car from Pullman or AC&F. So the Q's Aurora shops came to the rescue, converting an old ( 1902 ) open platform parlor-lounge-observation car ( CB&Q 208, built as 301 and named IOWA ) into a new vice presidential car for Robert Rice. Completed in January 1930, the new car was assigned the number second 900 and remained through several upgradings as the principal C&S office car until 1967 when, with the discontinuance of passenger service on the C&S-FW&D, it was sold. |