81303;
www.sanjuancarco.com. After getting a few pairs of the excel- lent On3/On30 passenger car trucks, I was pretty excited when San Juan an- nounced they would be doing a Jackson & Sharp coach in On30 and On3. I got even more excited when I saw some samples that included the “duckbill” roof and an earlier style window seen on older cars and work train equip- ment. So I was equally disappointed when they announced late in 2012 that the coach project was suspended indef- initely.
This was short-lived, as I got excited again when I opened a box from Du- rango and it contained a passel of pas- senger car parts. Inside were ends, sides, floors, roofs and end details, all molded in gray styrene and exhibiting San Juan’s crisp die work. Clearly, the packages contained the major compo- nents of what was to be the San Juan ready-to-run Jackson & Sharp coach. While being far from a complete kit, this is better in some ways because it gives the modeler the ability to mix and match components and achieve cars that would likely never have been offered ready-to-run.
These pieces provide the basis for the majority of Denver & Rio Grande Western and Rio Grande Southern pas- senger coaches, as well as many pieces of m.o.w rolling stock. In addition, be- cause Jackson & Sharp produced cars for many other railroads and the parts
duplicate both early and later roof and window styles, modelers of other roads can get into the building and kitbash- ing act. Let’s examine the parts more closely.
The prototype for these parts were the 59 Jackson & Sharp coaches or- dered in several batches between 1880 and 1882 by the Denver & Rio Grande. These cars were 38′-5″ long (body; the overall length of the cars with plat- forms was 44′-4″) and they weighed 23,500 pounds. They came with the “duckbill” roof, end windows and 13 single-pane side windows. These win- dows were rather squat, making for a very large letterboard, and had a slight radius in each upper corner. They are generally referred to as the
“early
arch” style. Using San Juan sets 5202, 5203 and
5204 would yield the as-built version of these cars with the exception of the end windows, which started to be blanked out quite early. Cars with this appearance survived quite late (into the early 1940’s) on both the D&RGW and RGS. In fact, the Rio Grande Southern bought their passenger cars from the D&RG out of these class of cars. Examples survived much later on both roads in m.o.w. service. D&RGW No. 307 at the Colorado Railroad Mu- seum is an example of a surviving car that could be accurately built with the above-mentioned parts. As time went on, the railroad made
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