Re: Apache Railroad (Arizona)

Colorado76 Wrote:
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> Bruce,
>
> Thank you for the links to the photos! I did
> noticed the cars from Mexico and that piqued my
> interest. I wonder what railroad they came from,
> and why they brought cars in from Mexico. I only
> got part of the name from the photo it said:
> "Nor-Oeste de Mexico." I wonder what that
> operation was in Mexico or if it was a leasing
> company of some sort... I am going to dig around
> in some of the other Arizona digital collections
> and see what I can find as well.
>
> Ethan

From Yahoo MEXLIST:

James G McNary, a principal stockholder in the Cady Lbr Corp, had been an El Paso banker, in which capacity he became acquainted with investors affiliated with the NOdeM. Their capital invested in the Cady corporation included the steel cars show. The Santa Fe Northwestern at Bernalillo NM also had some ex NOdeM cars.
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The NOdeM had 354 steel log cars in the 5001-5500 series in 1940. The cars that went to A Z and NM never returned to Mexico.

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The railroad:

[en.wikipedia.org]


Bruce



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/30/2016 12:34PM by bcp.