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Nostalgia & History > Unusual Santa Fe freight carDate: 04/25/18 04:23 Unusual Santa Fe freight car Author: Korigaoka1811 I saw this at San Bernardino in 1976, the only time I ever remember seeing such a car. A ballast-dumper of some kind?
John  Date: 04/25/18 05:33 Re: Unusual Santa Fe freight car Author: Railbaron Copper concentrate. SP had a lot of those in Arizona.
Date: 04/25/18 05:50 Re: Unusual Santa Fe freight car Author: Korigaoka1811 Railbaron Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Copper concentrate. SP had a lot of those in > Arizona. Thanks, RailBaron! John Date: 04/25/18 10:36 Re: Unusual Santa Fe freight car Author: Earlk Copper Basin Ry still has fleet of them, although they are approaching the end of their service lives.
Date: 04/25/18 12:43 Re: Unusual Santa Fe freight car Author: MAP1024 ATSF and SP ordered them from Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Company in the early 1960s
Arizona Railway Museum in Chandler has preserved one of the SP units - http://www.azrymuseum.org/roster/CBRY_341002/Pics/2015-12-05%2008.56.37sm.jpg and the Arizona State RR Museum Foundation in Williams has its sister - http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4457150 both thanks to Jake Jacobson and the people of the Copper Basin Railway Date: 04/25/18 12:44 Re: Unusual Santa Fe freight car Author: callum_out Be my guess that since it's a SF car that it was in service in the Hurley NM region, neat shot
don't remember seeing any in Berdoo. Out Date: 04/25/18 17:44 Re: Unusual Santa Fe freight car Author: PHall callum_out Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Be my guess that since it's a SF car that it was > in service in the Hurley NM region, neat shot > don't remember seeing any in Berdoo. > > Out May have made a visit to the San Bernardino car shops. Date: 04/25/18 21:14 Re: Unusual Santa Fe freight car Author: railstiesballast Copper concentrate is a sticky wet mud.
The bottom doors of these cars drop to the sides, nearly vertically, and the concentrate has to fall into the pit. It would not slide on the slope sheet of a regular hopper. Date: 04/26/18 01:26 Re: Unusual Santa Fe freight car Author: Evan_Werkema ATSF 64002 is a class Ga-139 copper concentrate car built by Gunderson in 1964. The class originally comprised 25 cars, but only three were still on the active rolls in 1991. Santa Fe also had three other classes of similar cars.
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