Re: Loading Gold Concentrate Ouray, CO 1940

Chris James Wrote:
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> It would appear that using boxcars for hauling ore
> and concentrate was at least as common as using
> gondolas, as I've seen images like this (w/ or w/o
> a truck or a mule train) in a number of sources.
> Was the concentrate bagged? (Looking at Larry's
> other photo, the CU, appears that it was not.) It
> would certainly seem that a gondola would be
> easier to load, though no easier to unload.
>
> I suppose this was a case of "use what you got to
> get it done."

There's a note in one of Dorman's books that boxcars were used because the concentrates didn't freeze up as badly. This would seem to me to indicate that they weren't necessarily bagged up.

JAC