Re: [CBQ] Interesting paint job,etc

["Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Leo:

There are photos of similar trains coming down the branch from the quarry to Fort Collins on pages 48-49 of BB 32 on sugar beets.  Richard is correct as to location and destination.  The cars are 52'6" mill gons built for the C&S at Havelock in 1965.  (Yes, it's odd for a bulk commodity such as limestone to be hauled in flat-bottom cars to facilities that had no car dumpers, meaning the liestone had to be unloaded by clamshell, which is exactly what Great Western Sugar did at their "factories.") And the SD9 wears diagonal Scotchlite delineator stripes on its side sills as was C&S standard practice in the 1960s, as the C&S considered the SDs as road switchers and the Burlington standard called for Scotchlite stripes on the side sills of all switchers.

Hol 

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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of Richard Townsend richtownsend@netscape.net [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 10:21 PM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Interesting paint job,etc

 

 

That's a C&S SD-9 and the location looks like Loveland, Colorado. I'm guessing the cargo is limestone from the Ingleside quarries, likely bound for a Great Western sugar factory.

 

Richard Townsend

Lincoln City, OR

 

 

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From: qutlx1@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
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Sent: Wed, Jan 25, 2017 7:18 pm
Subject: [CBQ] Interesting paint job,etc

 

Take a look at item 371847974178 on eBay. That's an interesting paint job on the SD. Given the unit # I'm guessing this is a C&S photo location ?

Then look at the train. Are those some type of air dump gons? Don't look like standard mill gons. And what's the lading ? It's too large for ballast, too small for rip rap. Is it some type of steel mill slag moving for crushing ?

Leo Phillipp

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Posted by: Hol Wagner <holpennywagner@msn.com>

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