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Santa Fe ACF 3-bay covered hoppers GA-111 & GA-117
Santa Fe ACF 3-bay covered hoppers GA-111 & GA-117
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leighant
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August 2002
From: Corpus Christi, Texas
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Santa Fe ACF 3-bay covered hoppers GA-111 & GA-117
Posted by
leighant
on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 3:45 PM
I was doing a New Year's "what rolling stock should I buy" inventory comparing Santa Fe's prototype roster for the time I model, late 1950s, to my N scale roster. I read in
Santa Fe High Iron
magazine back in SepOct1972 p.20 that ConCor and Minitrix 3-bay covered hoppers resembled Santa Fe's ACF-built GA-111 and GA-117. Went to my computer file of thousands of ATSF rolling stock pictures by ATSF class and car number to check for myself. Discovered I didn't have any pictures or diagrams of GA-111 or GA-117 anywhere! Anyone have any pictures of these cars? Or know a source?
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leighant
Member since
August 2002
From: Corpus Christi, Texas
2,377 posts
Posted by
leighant
on Thursday, January 13, 2005 3:38 PM
More on above...
I have 2 or 3 Minitrix models from 1970s of what I understand to be the GA-111 design...
in various paint, not ATSF, but have never seen pix of the ATSF GA-111 or GA-117, so I cannot be sure of how to repaint and detail....
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