Re: Last Train to Santa Fe

CharlieMcCandless Wrote:
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> . . .  A train with six cars of revenue freight
> showed up in Santa Fe a week after the last
> scheduled run of Sept. 1, 1941. Technically
> the train was a scrap train, but why not make
> a little money on the side . . .


Interesting, Charlie -

I've heard rumors that the "scrap" was six closely-guarded boxcars from Sawpit on the R.G.S. that were loaded with 'yellow cake' -
a cheap paint pigment at one time - that hastened the end of WWII (which was still three months away on 09/07/41) . . .    

- Willie

p.s. Don't believe everything (or much of anything, actually) that you read on the internet . . .    



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/10/2017 05:32PM by Johnson Barr.