Spokane International Railway by Jones Dale W.;

Author:Jones, Dale W.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2019-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

The above scene has No. 201 leading an eastbound phosphate ore train past log gondolas set out at Forest Siding, Idaho. Phosphate is needed in the manufacture of fertilizer. During the 1930s, Cominco Ltd. developed a process that turned the phosphate-refining byproduct sulphuric acid and chalky phosphate ore into fertilizers marketed under the name Elephant Brand. The train load of hopper cars may appear empty, but a two-bay hopper half-full would contain the maximum weight of phosphate ore; this also explains the need for five locomotives. Below, unique to Nos. 200 and 201 is the conspicuous automobile-like headlight. Larry Shawver stated, “They were not like rotating Mars lights, but on-and-off non-rotating blinker lights; not anything like it today.”

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