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Jerry Day

March 25, 2007 10:10PM

The coke cars were almost exclusively used at Crested Butte where the CF&I had large coke ovens. The coke ovens were shut down by the CF&I in 1919 and the drop bottom gons were rebuilt in 1924 at Alamosa. They also used box cars and the ex-Crystal River Ingolsby dump cars to haul coke. The coke was very hard on wooden cars and that is one reason the CF&I shut it down.

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700 & 800 class drop bottom gons	John McCutcheon	March 25, 2007 03:30PM
Re: 700 & 800 class drop bottom gons	Fred	March 25, 2007 03:42PM
Re: 700 & 800 class drop bottom gons	BILL SCOBIE	March 25, 2007 04:46PM
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Re: 700 & 800 class drop bottom gons	Jerry Day	March 25, 2007 05:41PM
Re: 700 & 800 class drop bottom gons	Douglas vV	March 25, 2007 08:07PM
Re: 700 & 800 class drop bottom gons	Jerry Day	March 25, 2007 10:10PM
Re: 700 & 800 class drop bottom gons PIC	Rod Jensen	March 26, 2007 12:41AM
Re: 700 & 800 class drop bottom gons	Herb Kelsey	March 27, 2007 10:31AM

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