Covered Hopper Cars Stuff you didn’t want to know but I will tell you anyhow. Randy Dettmer

The Utilitarian Boxcar

Bagged Material

More efficient but still in bags

Bulk in Boxcars

LCL Cement Containers

Other Bulk LCL Containers

FDR New Deal – TVA, WPA, roads, bridges

Is it a boxcar or covered hopper? D&H, RDG, PRR

ACF Covered Hopper

Greenville Covered Hopper

World War II Development on hold.

Federal-Aid Hwy Act of 1956

PS-2 Covered Hopper

Flexi Flo Covered Hopper

PS – Larger More Hoppers

Pressure differential car

Agriculture

Grain in boxcars

Boxcar with grain doors

Big John

Another 100 ton car

High cube grain car – 286K

Roof and discharge types

Trough hatch

Center line circular hatch

Hopper gate – gravity car

Bottom view of gravity car gate

Inside a gravity car

Opening gates on a gravity car

Washing out gravity car

Gravity car leaking!

Inside a pressure differential car

Pressure differential bottom cone

Pad from pressure differential

Discharge Y-pipe on PD car

Combination discharge

High Density Commodities Borax, Cement, Clay Calcined, Fertilizer, Glass Broken, Gypsum, Salt, Sand, Soda Ash

High Density Commodities

Intermediate Density Commodities Corn, Fly Ash, Hops, Magnesite, Rice, Rye, Soybeans, Wheat

Intermediate Density Products

Intermediate size Covered Hopper

Agricultural type covered hopper

Canadian Type for agriculture

Light Density Commodities Dried Distiller Grains, Light Feed, Plastic Pellets, Starch

Covered Hopper - plastics

Plastics covered hopper

Pressure differential covered hopper

Airslide Flour, Sugar

Airslide covered hopper

Airslide Covered Hopper

Carbon Black – specialty car

Apply what you have learned

What commodity would this be assigned to?

What would we load here?

What would you load in this?

Bulk feed?

What are those holes?