The Most Significant Santa Fe Freight Car Classes
In 1950
By Richard H. Hendrickson
from Second Quarter 2000 Warbonnet
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Summary
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All Types Total: 71,375
Notes: Though the heavy traffic demands of World War II postponed
the retirement or rebuilding of many obsolete wood and composite freight
cars, these older cars disappeared rapidly as soon as the war ended,
and rebuilding projects resumed on a large scale. By 1950, all of
the late-20s ARA wood sheathed box cars had been rebuilt with AAR-design
steel bodies and the remaining USRA wood reefers had been also rebuilt,
along with all of the Rr-5 class ARA composite reefers. Some Bx-3/-6
sectional-sheathed composite box cars remained in revenue service,
but many had been retired or rebuilt into stock cars. Many new all-steel
cars also began to arrive beginning in 1945, and in the late 1940s
the Santa Fe augmented the efforts of the commercial car builders
by building some new equipment in its own car shops. Covered hoppers,
transverse hopper cars, 65' mill gondolas, and bulkhead flat cars
appeared in the 1950 roster in sizable numbers, and Hart convertible
ballast hoppers had replaced almost all of the old wood ballast cars. |
Car Descriptions
AAR - Association
of American Railroads
AC&F - American Car & Foundry
ARA - American Railway Association
comp. - composite construction' steel framing with wood sheathing.
conv. - convertible
corr.-side - corrugated side sheathing
ctr. sills - center sills
drs. - doors
dbl. dk. - double deck
dbl. drs. - double doors
f/b - fishbelly
GATC - General American Transportation Corp.
GSC - General Steel Castings
impr. - improved (i.e., post-WWII design)
orig. - original, originally
pass. equipt. - equipped for passenger train service
PSC - Pressed Steel Car Co.
rfr. - refrigerator car
reblt. - rebuilt
sngl. dk. - single deck
sngl. sh. - single sheathed
stl. - steel
12P - twelve panel
u/f - underframe
USRA - United States Railway Administration
wd. - wood
wd. sh. - wood sheathed |
Model Manufacturers
A - Athearn
AT - Atlas
BL - Branchline
BW - Bowser
C
- C&BT Shops
E - Eastern Car Works
IM - InterMountain
K - Kato
kb - Kitbash
KD - Kadee
L - Life-Like Proto
2000
m - needs some modification
0 - Overland (brass)
PS - Precision Scale
(brass)
RC
- Red Caboose
S - Sunshine (molded resin)
W
- Westerfield (molded resin)
ST - Stewart
WR - W&R Enterprises (brass) |
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