(erielack) The EL Hot 100...honorable mention #18

[Patrick Moore <pat.moore_@_att.net>]

List...

Unlike the SP and UP (through PFE) and the BN roads, the Santa Fe built their own mechanical reefers in the mid-1960s.  The ATSF built two series of nearly identical cars, their classes Rr-87 and Rr-89, in 1965 and 1966, respectively.  Visually, these cars appear to differ only in that the first series was built with a running board and the second without.  If we combine the two number series (SFRC 50300 - 50694 and SFRC 50700 - 51399), we have a total of 33 that appeared in the consist sheets, which would put this car type somewhere in the 90s in the Hot 100.

Picture...
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/atsf/sfrc50112jpa.jpg


Locations...
Systemwide, but mainly hauling fruits and vegetables from California to any grocery distributor in the northeast.

Model...
None, unfortunately.  This would be a good model as a counterpoint to all the PC&F-built BNFE, SPFE, UPFE reefers running around the system.  


- -pat


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