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tendorf-type cast steel trucks with the understanding that the D&RGW would buy the trucks from them at cost less depreciation when the cars were no longer needed. Two points here have confused modelers and historians. Some sources show that the D&RGW bought the new trucks in 1940 from UTLX, but a careful reading of the ULTX memos shows they bought the original stan- dard gauge trucks the cars rode to Alamosa on. Clearly the Rio Grande and UTLX intended these cars to be as- signed to the narrow gauge lines for some time. Also, while these trucks are often identified as Bettendorfs, they in fact are American Steel Foundry trucks. The Bettendorf Company’s patents had expired at this point allowing other companies to make a “Bettendorf-type” with the journal cast integral to the sideframe, as opposed to the Andrews which had a cast sideframe, and bolt-on separate journals. The GRAMPS lettering was applied in
1938. Alamosa oil refinery owner Lafayette Hughes was leasing the cars to move oil from the Farmington, New Mexico oil fields to his refinery and let- tered the cars so he could point out “his” cars to his grandchildren. It is im- portant to note that while only the frameless cars received the GRAMPS let- tering, not all the cars did. Any with side ladders were excluded, and the photographic evidence suggests there were at least a few others that never wore the logo.
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These cars were also renumbered in 1947 based on tank heater style (all these cars were so equipped) and were done sequentially this time. The Van Dyke cars were renumbered 88150- 88157 and this makes the Blackstone car correct for the 1938-1947 time peri- od. All the cars were renumbered a fi- nal time in 1956 to 11034-11058. All of these cars made it to the end of oil movement operations in 1964 except Nos. 11034 and 11038, which were sold to the D&RGW for “overseas service.” No additional information on that has come to light. The other 23 cars were
conveyed to the Floyd W. Reed Compa- ny in 1965 for scrapping, but that is far from the end of the story. As noted before, the trucks from
these cars were sent up to Alaska with the narrow frame cars the White Pass bought. Also, Bob Richardson, founder of the Colorado Railroad Museum bought eight pairs from the Alamosa shop foreman. More importantly, sever- al of the cars still exist in complete form. Nos. 11045, 11051, 11058 are preserved at the CRRM in Golden. The No. 11050 is owned by the Colorado Historical Society and can be seen in Silver Plume. The Friends of the Cum- bres & Toltec, after years of negotia- tion, purchased the bodies of 11036 and 11037 and are restoring them in Antonito. These will ride on the trucks currently under the narrow frame cars. Nos. 11054 and 11056 (or at least their bodies) also survived scrapping but their current status is unknown. With the prototype cars handy for
study, and the source material from UTLX records, Blackstone had plenty of data available, and it shows in their new models. These are extremely accu- rate ¹₈₇th representations of the proto- type down to the trucks, brake rigging and rivets.
The cars come packaged in a win- dowed dark blue box. The models are cradled in a plastic clamshell that holds the model most securely without dam- aging the beautiful paint and decora- tion. As long as the modeler is careful re- placing the model in the packaging correctly, it will keep the cars safe and serviceable for many, many years. As good as the packing is, and as nice as the models look in it, one hopes the models find their way to operating layouts as the cars run as good as they look. They ride on new free-rolling HOn3
truck models of either the 4′-8″ heavy duty arch bar or the 30-ton ASF cast truck. Blackstone equipped the cars with Kadee No. 714 HOn3 couplers in- stalled at proper HOn3 height. They can get around a 15″ radius, which may not be that helpful, as the Blackstone
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