Pipe Train
Doug Harrop Photography • July 5, 1990
A unit train of steel pipe, SP symbol RVCNU, pulls eastward on D&RGW rails through Spanish Fork Canyon at Castilla, Utah. A pair of Rio Grande tunnel motors are shoving on the rear.
The product was made by Napa Pipe in a plant north of San Francisco. Napa also manufactured barges using steel from Kaiser Steel until 1983, then Oregon Steel ran it from 1987 to 2004, sourcing steel from Japan or Korea.
Pipe and manufacturing info courtesy Mark Hemphill.
Pipe Train
Doug Harrop Photography • July 5, 1990
A unit train of steel pipe, SP symbol RVCNU, pulls eastward on D&RGW rails through Spanish Fork Canyon at Castilla, Utah. A pair of Rio Grande tunnel motors are shoving on the rear.
The product was made by Napa Pipe in a plant north of San Francisco. Napa also manufactured barges using steel from Kaiser Steel until 1983, then Oregon Steel ran it from 1987 to 2004, sourcing steel from Japan or Korea.
Pipe and manufacturing info courtesy Mark Hemphill.