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

Mike...

Thanks for the comments!  It wouldn't be the first time that I was wrong.  I got my info from the ATSF Color Guide, so perhaps my faith is misplaced.

At any rate, I like your link to the Rr-89 reefer much better, so I think I am going to use that one instead!

- -pat
 

    On Sunday, August 13, 2017 8:09 PM, Michael Dodge <micstedod_@_gmail.com> wrote:
 

 
Pat,

Thanks for all the effort you've put into this. It's brought back quite a
few "I remember those" memories.

It appears the photo link included for these cars is to an example built
prior to the ones you are citing, I believe a class Rr-80. I am no expert,
so for all I know this series might also be virtually identical to the two
series you discuss.

Here is a link to a photo of one of the cars in the series you specifically
mentioned, I believe a class Rr-89 (although the photo is dated as May 1965
and which, if accurate, puts it on the road a year before it was built?!?):

http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=sfrc51065&o=atsf

Mike Dodge



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> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 01:45:29 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Patrick Moore <pat.moore_@_att.net>
> Subject: (erielack) The EL Hot 100...honorable mention #18
>
> 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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