Santa Fe Other Rolling Stock & Misc.

Cabooses:

Ore and coal on the Santa Fe:

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> Keel Middleton wrote:
>
>>Allen is correct that the Gull Wing cabs on the 500s and 800s were
>>designed to clear the loader at York Canyon.
>
> As a footnote, Kaiser Steel shut down its Fontana, CA mill in 1984.  I don't
> know when the last coal train ran, but it would have been before that, and
> well before the widenose GE's showed up.  Coal continued to come out of York
> Canyon through the 80's and into the 90's, just not heading for Fontana.

True, when Kaiser closed the Fontana mill the York Canyon mine was forced to find another customer for the coal and the entire personality of the train changed at that time. Enter the big GEs and exit the Transco coal gons. The coal no longer went west but east instead. I believe the new customer was Wisconsin Electric in Milwaukee WI. The Transco gons were replaced by I believe, the 5 pocket rapid discharge hopppers. The trains I saw had three or four GEs on the point and no mid trains and Fred instead of a caboose. The trains were too heavy for Raton Pass in one bite so the train ran from theYork Canyon mine to the town of Raton NM where the train was broken in three pieces and each piece was taken over the pass to Trinidad CO. When the triple was completed the train was put back together and headed east. This lasted till the York Canyon mine closed.

Allen Clum