| 词条 | Silver City, Pinos Altos and Mogollon Railroad | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The railroad climbed {{convert|1100|ft|m}} using 48 bridges or trestles with {{convert|15.4|mi|km}} of track at grades of 1.5 to 6 percent to cross the {{convert|6|mi|km}} from Silver City to Pinos Altos. The Continental Divide summit was at an elevation of {{convert|7311|ft|m}} near Pinos Altos. Ore was carried in 33 ten-ton capacity drop-bottom hopper cars built in Silver City[6] from riveted or bolted steel channels, angles and sheets. The railroad also built ten wooden flatcars which were modified upon occasion to serve as excursion cars, lowside gondolas, a steam-powered derrick for recovering derailed cars,[4] a corrugated steel boxcar, and a tank car to carry boiler water for the locomotives.[7] There was also one caboose.[2] Two new locomotives were purchased while the older locomotives handled construction trains. When regular service was established on 4 July 1906,[4] the newer locomotives pulled trains of nine or ten ore cars from the mines to ore concentrators and smelters in Silver City.[8] Mining equipment was transported back to the mines in empty ore cars.[9] No railway air brakes were fitted, and a runaway ore train derailment on 7 February 1907 killed the locomotive fireman and a visiting representative from Lima Locomotive Works.[4] The older locomotives shunted cars around the smelters and transported slag from the smelters to disposal sites. Another larger locomotive was purchased in 1907. A {{convert|25|mi|km}} southwesterly extension was considered to reach Burro Mountain.[4] A 7-stall engine-house was constructed in anticipation of two more locomotives, but operations ceased on 10 October 1907[4] after the price of copper dropped 50 percent within a few weeks. Comanche Mining and Smelting merged with Minnesota-based Savannah Copper Company in 1908.[2] The line operated briefly after copper prices recovered in 1910,[10] and was scrapped in 1913. Locomotives
References
Notes1. ^Shaw 1958 p.177 {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2011}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Silver City Pinos Altos Mogollon Railroad}}2. ^1 2 3 {{cite journal |last1=Tufford |first1=Garrie L. |last2= |first2= |year=1999 |title=A Caboose for the Silver City, Pinos Altos & Mogollon |journal=Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette |volume= |issue=January/February |pages=30&31 |publisher=Benchmark Publications }} 3. ^Myrick (1970) p.150 4. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite journal |last1=Pashina |first1=Keith |last2= |first2= |year=1992 |title=The Silver City, Pinos Altos & Mogollon Railroad |journal=Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette |volume= |issue=May/June |pages=39–45 |publisher=Benchmark Publications }} 5. ^Ferrell (1970) p.62 6. ^Ericson (2007)p.25 7. ^Ericson (2007) p.31&38 8. ^1 {{cite journal |last1=Brewster |first1=Allen J. |last2= |first2= |year=1971 |title=Silver City 24"-gauge Shay |journal=Model Railroader |volume= |issue=May |pages=56–59 |publisher=Kalmbach Publishing }} 9. ^Ericson (2007) p.38 10. ^Myrick (1970) p.155 11. ^Koch (1971) 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.shaylocomotives.com/data/lima/sn-181.htm|title= Lima Locomotive & Machine Co. Shop Number 181|publisher=Shay Locomotives|accessdate=2012-01-29}} 13. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.shaylocomotives.com/data/lima/sn-199.htm|title= Lima Locomotive & Machine Co. Shop Number 199|publisher=Shay Locomotives|accessdate=2012-01-29}} 5 : 2 ft gauge railways in the United States|Defunct New Mexico railroads|Narrow gauge railroads in New Mexico|Railway companies established in 1889|Railway companies disestablished in 1913 |
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