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Owner: General Electric Rail Services
Old Name: American Car & Foundry Co.
Type: Covered Hopper
AAR Class: LO: A permanently enclosed car, other than a box car, regardless of exterior or interior shape, for handling bulk commodities, with or without insulation and provided with openings for loading through top or sides with weather-tight covers or doors. Car may be provided with one or more bottom openings for unloading, with tight fitting covers, doors, valves, or tight fitting slide or gate to prevent leakage of lading. Car may be provided with facilities for discharge of lading through openings in top or sides and may have one or more compartments. Mechanical or other means may be provided within car to expedite loading or unloading.
AAR Type: C214
Detail Info:   Covered Hopper, Pneumatic Unloading, Permanent Roof, Greater than 5000 cu ft capacity
Plate:   C
Max Gross Weight:   263000
Load Limit:   197800
Dry Capacity:   5800
Ext L/W/H:   64' 8" / 10' 8" / 15' 6"

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ACFX 68975, et al.
Title:  ACFX 68975, et al.
Description:  A string of covered hoppers spotted on a spur along WSOR, former C&NW, rails southeast of Reed St., in Plymouth, WI on 15 Jul. '14. A tanker truck is parked alongside the spur either loading or unloading one of the cars. This spur, a remnant of the former C&NW mainline, was re-installed quite recently; it does not appear on current satellite maps. These new rails end at E. Clifford St., the next would-be grade crossing, but they will once again carry trains to Kohler, WI in the near future, if I’m not mistaken. I had to include the electrical box on the right because it still has CNW stenciled on it. The former MILW rails in use by WSOR are hidden on the right; you can see some of the old telephone poles that parallel the rails.
Photo Date:  7/15/2014  Upload Date: 7/16/2014 2:46:37 AM
Location:  Plymouth, WI
Author:  T. P. Bruss
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  94   Comments: 1
ACFX 68975, et al.
Title:  ACFX 68975, et al.
Description:  A string of covered hoppers spotted on a spur along WSOR, former C&NW, rails southeast of Reed St., in Plymouth, WI on 15 Jul. '14. A tanker truck is parked alongside the spur either loading or unloading one of the cars. This spur, a remnant of the former C&NW mainline, was re-installed quite recently; it does not appear on current satellite maps. These new rails end at E. Clifford St., the next would-be grade crossing, but they will once again carry trains to Kohler, WI in the near future, if I’m not mistaken. The former MILW rails in use by WSOR are hidden on the right; you can see some of the old telephone poles that parallel the rails.
Photo Date:  7/15/2014  Upload Date: 7/16/2014 2:47:25 AM
Location:  Plymouth, WI
Author:  T. P. Bruss
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  82   Comments: 0


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