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These 25'-9" ore gondollas were built by PC&F in 1962. They featured 1350 ft3 capacity when new. In the mid 1960's, the cars were modified at SP's Sacremento Shops to recieve 12 inchside and end extensions to accomodate additional ore bringing their capacity to 1602 ft3. Around 1969 a group of around 30 cars (exclusively from the G-100-6 class) were further modified with an additonal 12 inch side and end extension bringing their capacity to 1853 ft3. These cars were used in captive service hauling ore from Kaiser Steel's mine to Los Angeles for export.

In later years, they were placed into general aggregate service and were common in Texas.

A J. Pat Bray article on the history of the Kaiser Ore Trainscan be seen in the Winter 1996 (#50) edition of the SP Historical and Technical Society's magazine Trainline.

Photo by: Brent MacGregor

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