Traffic in San Luis Valley

Town	Company	Ships	Receives	Amount	Type of cars	Comments
Antonito	Johns-Manville Corp.	Perlite, 100lb bags			40' and 50' box cars
	Johns-Manville Corp.	Perlite, bulk		2000 carloads/year	2 and 3 bay covered hoppers 1965-69 Pullman 2893, 4427 Later Pullman 4740, 4750 and ACF Centerflows	50% of the total traffic
	Great Lakes Carbon	Perlite, bulk			as above	2nd biggest shipper
	Colorado Aggregate	Scoria			70 ton and 100 ton hoppers
	Colorado Aggregate	Decorative rocks
	Colorado Aggregate		Marble chips
	Lumber Mill	Lumber			Flat cars, box cars

Bountiful	Coors Brewing	Barley			3 bay covered hoppers	Started mid to late 60s

La Jara	Floyd Reed's Grain	Grain			3 bay covered hoppers

South Fork	Stone Forest Products	Lumber			Flat cars, box cars	To Tennessee, Georgia
		Wood chips			D&RGW 40ft box cars later Santa Fe GS gons with side extensions	To paper mill in Nekoosa, Wisconsin

Creede		Ore concentrates			GS drop-bottom and GB fixed-bottom gons

Monte Vista	Coors Brewing	Barley		800 carloads/year	3 bay covered hoppers 1965-69 Pullman 2893, 4427 Later Pullman 4740, 4750 and ACF Centerflows	Coors, Golden CO?
	Lumber Mill	Lumber			Flat cars, box cars
	Mounain King and Wolf Creek Potatoe	Potatoe			Un-iced and mechanical reefers
Center	San Luis Central	Centennial Russet Potatoes		20 carloads/day	Until end of the 60s: Un-iced reefers mainly from ART but also from WFE, PFE, FGE, BREX and SFRD. From the end of the 60s: SLC REA express reefers. Later second hand 57ft mechanical reefers from PFE and FGE
			Acid		Tank cars
			Fertilizer		Tank cars
			Anhydros Ammonia		Tank cars

Zinzer	Sanner Bros	Scrap Metal			Gondolas
	Monte Vista CoOp	Grain			Covered hoppers
			Fertilizer		Tank cars
			Anhydrous ammonia		Tank cars

Parma	Poote Chemical		Fertilizer		Tank cars

Alamosa	Trucks from Chama	Raw timber			Flat cars
	Rio Grande Motorway	General freights	General freights		Box cars
			Stock		Stock cars, narrow gauge	Transfer from one gauge to another.
		Stock			Stock cars, standard gauge
	Alamosa Lumber Yard		Lumber		Flat cars, box cars
	Lumber yard		Lumber		Flat cars, box cars	Until beginning of the 60s
	Sky Valley Ice	Lettuce			Reefers*	August and September

Blanca	Blanfort Potato Warehouse	Spuds (Potatoes)			Reefers*

*reefers mainly from ART but also from WFE, PFE, FGE, BREX and SFRD

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Last Update: 1998-05-22