The "decimal point" car

News comes from the Narrow Gauge Discussion Forum that the last surviving "decimal point" car from the Denver & Intermountain, car .04, has been moved to Cheyenne for restoration. The car, shown above, was built in 1911 by Woeber Carriage and ran until it was retired in 1950. It was built as a standard-gauge car but was converted to 3'6" gauge, standard in Denver, in 1924. The restoration, said to be cosmetic only, is being done by High Plains Railroad Preservation.

Besides the car now being under restoration, its ownership has been clarified. While it's been stored outdoors in Arvada for some time, I thought it was owned by the Denver Rail Heritage Society. While that may have been true at one point (the car's preservation-era history is virtually unknown to me) the car is apparently now owned by the City of Arvada. So that correction has been made to its PNAERC record. Between trailer 610 in Aurora and now .04, Denver car bodies preserved in the area seem to be faring well these days.