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I didn’t spend much time in that area, but I did make one trip to Conroe, which was then out in the country, in July 75. There were several pulpwood cars on a track which, as I recall, was the interchange track between MP and Santa Fe. This was just west of the joint depot, which I also shot. It’s long gone, as are almost all the forested areas around there. Evidently these cars of pulpwood were loaded on the MP and being interchanged to the Santa Fe bound for some mill located on that line. I’d never seen a pulpwood car before that day.
Note there are two different types of car in these photos. The MP ones are 50-ton cars with a capacity of 24 cords of wood, built 1950-52, while the TP one is a 100-ton car with a capacity of 37 cords, built 1967. The MP cars are based on 40′ car frames while the TP one is based on a 50′ frame.
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