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usg111

March 06, 2019 08:35AM

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Colorado76 Wrote:
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> Beautiful photos of a rather obscure narrow gauge
> line left in commercial operations! Just a curious
> question of mine is what is the load capacity of
> the gons?

The cars have a capacity of 50 tons each. So a train of 24 hopper minus the idler (so 23 loaded) would be 1,150 tons of gypsum ore.

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USG Plaster City 2018/2019	usg111	March 02, 2019 10:34AM
Re: USG Plaster City 2018/2019	John West	March 02, 2019 12:00PM
Re: USG Plaster City 2018/2019	theoriginaltwofoot	March 03, 2019 07:00AM
Re: USG Plaster City 2018/2019	rehunn	March 03, 2019 11:52AM
Re: USG Plaster City 2018/2019	usg111	March 04, 2019 03:52PM
Re: USG Plaster City 2018/2019	guymonmd	March 02, 2019 01:15PM
Re: USG Plaster City 2018/2019	jim pallow	March 02, 2019 01:54PM
Re: USG Plaster City 2018/2019	rehunn	March 02, 2019 02:37PM
Re: USG Plaster City 2018/2019	usg111	March 02, 2019 03:05PM
Re: USG Plaster City 2018/2019	jim pallow	March 02, 2019 05:09PM
Re: USG Plaster City 2018/2019	rehunn	March 02, 2019 07:57PM
Re: USG Plaster City 2018/2019	theoriginaltwofoot	March 03, 2019 06:56AM
Re: USG Plaster City 2018/2019	jim pallow	March 03, 2019 11:15AM
Re: USG train north of Plaster City - aerial	bcp	March 03, 2019 12:09PM
Re: USG train north of Plaster City - aerial	usg111	March 03, 2019 12:21PM
Re: USG Plaster City 2018/2019	Herb Kelsey	March 04, 2019 02:52AM
Re: USG Plaster City 2018/2019	Tom Moungovan	March 04, 2019 04:21AM
Re: USG Plaster City 2018/2019	usg111	March 04, 2019 08:50AM
Re: USG Plaster City 2018/2019	Colorado76	March 05, 2019 05:06PM
Re: USG Plaster City 2018/2019	bcp	March 05, 2019 05:17PM
Re: USG Plaster City 2018/2019	Colorado76	March 07, 2019 08:23AM
Re: USG Plaster City 2018/2019	usg111	March 06, 2019 08:35AM
Re: USG Plaster City 2018/2019	Colorado76	March 07, 2019 08:26AM

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