ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE RAILWAY
Pulpwood Car No. 330219
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ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE RAILWAY
Pulpwood Car No. 330219
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There are many kinds of flat cars. A bulkhead flat car like this has vertical ends to keep loose stacked loads from shifting fore and aft. This car was built by the Santa Fe Railway in 1951 to carry pulpwood logs from the forest to a paper mill.
Pulpwood logs are smaller than the logs used for making lumber. They are only 6 to 9 inches in diameter, are cut to 4-foot lengths, and are stacked crosswise along both sides of the car. The logs are held in place by the shallow V-shape of the floor, which keeps them from sliding off the side of the car.
After many years of pulpwood service in northern Arizona, the Santa Fe Railway donated this car to the Arizona Railway Museum in 1992.
American Car & Foundry built this 53-foot car for the Santa Fe Railway as a class Ga-80 mill gondola in 1951, originally numbered in the 167000 - 167799 range. It was rebuilt as a pulpwood car in Santa Fe's Cleburne, Texas shops in 1967 under job number F-1257, which removed the sides, gave it a V-shaped floor, and converted the ends into 8-foot bulkheads. It was further rebuilt under job number F-1594 which applied 3/16-inch steel plates to the bulkheads. Its new class number became F-84.
When donated to the museum in November 1992, it was placed with the other cars on the Pecos Road storage track. After the Southern Pacific installed the switch into the museum's Armstrong Park location in 1993, this car was moved onto the museum grounds in 1994, then was moved with the rest of the fleet to the museum’s new location at Tumbleweed Park in 2006.|
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2/27/2013 - Photo of the car at Tumbleweed Park. |
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2006 - Flatcar being used to haul SWF log car. |
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Flatcar at Armstrong Park. |
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1990 - Santa Fe data sheet for class F-84 pulpwood flatcars. |
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