Santa Fe Hoppers & Gondolas: 1959-1995

This volume on Santa Fe's hoppers and gondolas covers everything in the Ga class that Santa Fe owned from 1960 to the BNSF merger in 1995. On the Santa Fe, that includes hoppers, covered hoppers and gondolas.

Slater's book picks up where Richard Hendrickson left off in his excellent book, Santa Fe Open-Top Cars: Flat, Gondola and Hopper Cars 1902-1959, Rolling Stock Reverence Series volume seven. Also included are two cars, one gondola, and one ore car, that were listed in the Hendrickson book but not shown, the Ga-76 class 65-foot mill gondola and the Ga-107 class Hurley ore car. This book features 107 car classes with roster and painting and lettering guide. A must have for either the modeler or transportation historian.

Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society, 256 pages with a coil last-flat binding, standard horizontal format, 8.5 x 11.5 x 1.25 in., Color images throughout.

• New
• Spiral Bound
• Charles Slater
• Santa Fe Railway H&M Society