Colorado & Southern
Road Numbers C&S 1116

This 30’ composite frame wood reefer is painted box car red with yellow sides. It bears a circular black and white logo, black lettering. It was built in February 1909, serviced in March 1935 and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Originally built for the Colorado and Southern as series 500-519 in 1909, these cars were repainted and renumbered in 1912 and received this circular trademark paint scheme beginning in 1927. Three cars in this series, 1113, 1116 and 1108 were sold to Rio Grande Southern in 1938. By 1940, another version of the Leadville arrangement of the circular trademark theme was introduced and cars began to be repainted, though few of this series remained in service by that time.