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Covered Hopper Cars Stuff you didn’t want to know but I will tell you anyhow. Randy Dettmer
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The Utilitarian Boxcar
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Bagged Material
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More efficient but still in bags
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Bulk in Boxcars
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LCL Cement Containers
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Other Bulk LCL Containers
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FDR New Deal – TVA, WPA, roads, bridges
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Is it a boxcar or covered hopper? D&H, RDG, PRR
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ACF Covered Hopper
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Greenville Covered Hopper
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World War II Development on hold.
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Federal-Aid Hwy Act of 1956
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PS-2 Covered Hopper
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Flexi Flo Covered Hopper
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PS – Larger More Hoppers
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Pressure differential car
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Agriculture
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Grain in boxcars
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Boxcar with grain doors
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Big John
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Another 100 ton car
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High cube grain car – 286K
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Roof and discharge types
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Trough hatch
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Center line circular hatch
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Hopper gate – gravity car
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Bottom view of gravity car gate
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Inside a gravity car
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Opening gates on a gravity car
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Washing out gravity car
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Gravity car leaking!
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Inside a pressure differential car
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Pressure differential bottom cone
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Pad from pressure differential
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Discharge Y-pipe on PD car
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Combination discharge
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High Density Commodities
Borax, Cement, Clay Calcined, Fertilizer, Glass Broken, Gypsum, Salt, Sand, Soda Ash
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High Density Commodities
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Intermediate Density Commodities
Corn, Fly Ash, Hops, Magnesite, Rice, Rye, Soybeans, Wheat
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Intermediate Density Products
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Intermediate size Covered Hopper
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Agricultural type covered hopper
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Canadian Type for agriculture
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Light Density Commodities
Dried Distiller Grains, Light Feed, Plastic Pellets, Starch
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Covered Hopper - plastics
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Plastics covered hopper
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Pressure differential covered hopper
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Airslide Flour, Sugar
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Airslide covered hopper
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Airslide Covered Hopper
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Carbon Black – specialty car
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Apply what you have learned
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What commodity would this be assigned to?
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What would we load here?
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What would you load in this?
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Bulk feed?
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What are those holes?
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