Following hot on the heels of the new look for our future locomotives, our shop crews have been busy applying the new lettering scheme to some recently outshopped freight equipment. The new lettering is more visible and has a slightly more modern appearance, something to help seperate the older equipment from the newer, and give the Arizona Southern a feeling of history all at the same time. The addition of the AZSO heralds on interchange cars will help spread our corporate identity out beyond our home rails.
One of the other cars to receive the new look is the latest addition to our ore car fleet. It seems that Kaiser Steel has cut back it's operations to a point where the Southern Pacific finds itself with a surplus of their distinctive tight bottom ore cars. Seeing the opportunity, AZSO negotiated the purchase of a significant portion of these surplus freight cars. Following are two views of the first car to roll out of the paint shops.
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| This ore load is made using Copper Range rock from the Arizona Rock & Mineral Co.
Well, as this is being posted, Thanksgiving is just under a week away. That pretty much means it will be 2019 in about fifteen minutes from now. So if I get tied up and don't wish you all a Merry Christmas or a Happy Chanukah or something else, I hope and pray for all of you to have prosperous new year and a wonderful holiday season.
As always, should the mood strike, feel free to comment...
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