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Colorado Mine Car Set by CrisGer 
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Colorado Mine Car sET

1900

Loaded Version, Empty Version, Dumped Position Version

Truax Automatic Ore Car

This model was created from an original car found in Pagosa Springs by me, and measured and photographed for the textures, this car was probably used at the mines in Creede and was given to Dr Mary Fisher who was a famous lady doctor in the area who treated everyone in the region including the miners. It is likely a gift to her from them. This car was typical of those used throughout the Colorado Mining districts and across the American West in the early 1900s. This one was capable of dumping either to the front or to the sides.

The original car was 28 x 28 x 48 and carried about 200 lbs of ore or waste rock. The wheel base was 24"

You are welcome to repaint and alter this models as you wish and require, the TSM source file is included, and you may also convert it to other formats. I only request that it not be used for commercial use of any kind without my permission. It may certainly be included in low cost distribution packages and for special projects but please contact me for permission. I would also appreciate advance notice of any release of variations and a copy of the model so released.

No liability is offered or assumed, you use at your own risk. Historic figures are avaiable to use with this model and variations are released with it of the car full of ore and in the dumping position.

You can contact me at the e mail below or Elvas Tower

Chris Gerlach (CrisGer)
August 2015

chrisgerlach9@yahoo.com

History:

Truax Ore Car The Truax Automatic Ore Car is one of the better known ore cars in the history of western mining. Invented by George E. Truax of Denver, CO and patented (No. 466,717) on January 5, 1892, the Truax ore car solved a major problem experienced by earlier ore cars. Unlike other cars whose door may not properly open as the car is tipped resulting in a shift in the load that carried the car and load over and down the dump, the Truax car automatically opens the door as the car is tipped and then relocks the door when the car is returned to the horizontal position. The 1895 patent (#545,433) was for an improvement in the door hinge and the 1898 patent (#607,785) was for an improvement in the door locking mechanism, both also awarded to George Truax. The brass ore car tags on these cars are coveted by collectors as an easily displayed piece of vintage heavy mining equipment. These cars were originally manufactured by the Truax Manufacturing Company of Denver, CO in the late 1890s and early 1900s. Later, the cars were also manufactured by Truax at San Francisco. Truax also sold the rights to make the cars to the Globe Iron Works of Stockton, CA. The Globe Foundry at the corner of Main and Commerce streets in Stockton was established in 1858 by E. I. Keep and Wm. H. Briggs. The foundry made mining machinery and steam engines. Changing hands many times because of removals and death, the foundry finally passed into the hands of Edward F. Cadle, who had long worked at a lathe in the foundry, and his son, Frank. The Globe Iron Works was incorporated by Cadle in 1895. They made ore cars for the mines, but refusing to employ union labor, the union miners would not handle their cars and the Globe Iron Works was eventually moved from Stockton to Sacramento in 1913 and later renamed Liberty Iron Works. Liberty produced Curtiss JN-4 aircraft to help train pilots for World War I. CHECK OUT THE TRUAX PATENT IN THE NEXT PIC

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