Work car body - Pueblo, CO

Frank Hicks · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2012 7:05 pm

Does anyone on RyPN have any information on something that appears to be a street railway work car body located off of Victoria Avenue between B & C Streets in Pueblo, CO? It's easily visible on Google Street View by typing in 370 S Victoria Ave and appears to be some sort of work car body. Any info appreciated; thanks!

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=370+s+vic ... Gbm3hpDknw

Frank Hicks

car57 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2012 7:42 pm

No information, but its certainly looks like a street car of some sort, and whats up with the British telephone box too !

Mike Pannell
Cheyenne

wesp · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2012 8:34 pm

The American Chicken Coop database list a home built work car body as being "restored by the Historical Society." No traction company name is listed.

http://www.erha.org/coop_files/coopc.htm

Wesley

trolleyira · **Joined:** Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:22 pm **Posts:** 219

It is a former Denver Tramway yard shunter. It was used to move trailers around the yard and as a general work car. It had a short life as a coffee bar on the 16th Street Mall in Denver before winding up in Pueblo.

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6482

trolleyira wrote:

It is a former Denver Tramway yard shunter.

Interesting. Did it have a road number? Does someone have an in-service photo?

Les

o anderson · **Posted:** Sat Jan 28, 2012 2:04 am

It may have served as a yard switcher, but it looks an awful lot like it started life as a McGuire-Cummins snow sweeper.
See Don Ross's Denver Tramways photos
http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0107/dt18.jpg
http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr2234.htm

Frank Hicks · **Posted:** Sat Jan 28, 2012 2:28 am

The roof profile and window layout doesn't look quite right for McGuire-Cummings standard sweepers like the ones posted above but both bear a striking resemblance to these double-truck snow sweepers, which look more like Brills:

http://davesrailpix.com/dentram/htm/dt145.htm
http://davesrailpix.com/dentram/htm/dt147.htm

I'm not very familiar with the Denver Tramways roster but I know that other lines had similar snow sweepers designed to be used as either sweepers or work motors.

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Sat Jan 28, 2012 3:39 am

"The roof profile and window layout doesn't look quite right for McGuire-Cummings standard sweepers like the ones posted above but both bear a striking resemblance to these double-truck snow sweepers, which look more like Brills:"--Frank Hicks

Not just the windows, the doors, too, including one at the end that I first thought was a post-rail service modification, but which turns out was part of the car in service.

But !!@#$%^&!!! that blue van that's in the way, keeping us from getting a really good look at the thing!

trolleyira · **Joined:** Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:22 pm **Posts:** 219

Yes, it started life as a snow sweeper.
IIRC, it was 720 but I am not sure of the actual number.