I'm not sure anyone has quite answered that; as another list member has said,
the single most helpful source is an article in a Colorado Rail Annual (I think
by Stan Rhine); there may be more in
Silver San Juan. Any number of possibilities suggest themselves, but most turn
on what was available to the RGS master mechanic when he started assembling
them. Pierce Arrows were a premium
automobile, not made in large numbers, and how several of them got to Colorado
and ended up in junk condition I have never heard (they were manufactured in
Buffalo, a long way away). The internet
will establish it for certain, but my recollection is that the Depression did
for Pierce-Arrow, as the market for luxury vehicles disappeared. How old the
actual ones used to construct the geese were perhaps only an auto historian
could establish from looking at the bodies, but they were obviously not newer
models in the 1930's.
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
>
> Why did the narrow gauge roads seem to prefer to use Pierce Arrow vehicles
> for their homade motorized units? Thanks.
> Stan
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