DSP&P PLANS 3                  More DSP&P at my Railway Pages Index

The plans on this page are from the Colorado and Southern folio drawings, as the cars appeared around 1916. The drawings are useful for body dimensions and general layout, but there were many modifications between the mid 1880's and 1916. The most noticable was the removal of open platforms on the baggage cars and baggahe ends of combines. Also, duck-bill roofs were replaced by more modern styles.

Window treatments don't appear to have changed too much, but several cars were converted from coach to combine and vice versa. These drawings are not to scale.

The best place to see photos of the DSP&P passenger fleet in various eras is at http://www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock/CandS/dsp-passenger/dsp_fleetinfo.htm

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