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	Covered hopper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Structurally, it is very similar to an open-top hopper car in that the carbody consists of a large hopper with unloading chutes at the bottom.
		Covered hoppers typically carry loads of less dense, and therefore lighter, materials, so they are built to a higher cubic capacity than open top hoppers.
		Covered hoppers in North American service have been built by most of the freight car manufacturers of the 20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Covered_hopper (256 words)

	Covered Hopper Operations: Conrail Cyclopedia
		While the RDG, LV, and CNJ contributed covered hoppers, many of these cars were sold to private owners or retired over the years, though some survived intact or under CR gray/oxide until the final days of Conrail.
		Covered hoppers were found in the Core Service Group, which was Conrail's general freight network, comprising nearly 60% of all daily Conrail trains.
		Of importance to covered hoppers were the dry chemicals and plastics that shipped from such points as the Chemical Coast in New Jersey to points west.
	crcyc.railfan.net /crrs/cov/covinfo.html (635 words)

	Freight and Passenger Cars - Hoppers
		Hoppers are a very common type of freight car and come in a variety of shapes, sizes and purposes.
		Covered hoppers are designed to handle dry bulk commodities which require absolute protection against the weather.
		The ARR uses open hoppers to haul mainly coal, gravel and ballast while covered hoppers are mainly for cement, chemicals and grain.
	www.alaskarails.org /fp/Hoppers.html (854 words)

	Atlas Model Railroad Co. - Grain Hopper Question
		Flour is frequently carried in covered hoppers but in Airslide (tm) covered hoppers that are different from "grain hoppers".
		Plastic pellets are shipped in covered hoppers from chemical plants to extrusion and casting plants that make things out of plastic.
		While it is true that covered hoppers assigned to grain service need to only be in that service (unless they are reassigned), the same car type can be used regardless.
	forum.atlasrr.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16167 (751 words)

	Microsoft Train Simulator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Consequently, hoppers and covered hoppers are the "buckets" the railroads use to haul most bulk commodities.
		The first covered hoppers in the 1920s and '30s were basically regular coal hoppers with temporary fabricated roofs.
		The 3,426 cubic-foot, two-bay covered hopper is a refinement of the same ACF Centerflow covered hopper introduced in the mid-1960s.
	www.microsoft.com /games/trainsimulator/articles_hopper.asp (531 words)

	Other CR Covered Hopper Photos: Conrail Cyclopedia
		Out of all the covered hoppers the railroad owned, the C13A was the only car class that Conrail purchased itself instead of inheriting from the predecessor railroads.
		These Pullman-Standard 3,018 cubic-feet covered hoppers with trough hatches were originally built for the Pennsylvania Railroad in the mid-1960s.
		As is oftent he case with Conrail covered hoppers, the old PRR paint scheme is showing through the oxide red.
	crcyc.railfan.net /crrs/cov/covcr.html (1424 words)

	UP-Car Descriptions: Covered Hoppers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A 42-ft. covered hopper with 3,000 cubic ft. capacity, 3 round hatches at center, 2 bays and 2 outlets.
		A 54-ft. covered hopper with 3,700 cubic ft. capacity, 6 round hatches at center, 3 bays and 3 outlets.
		A 60-ft. covered hopper with 5,125 cubic ft. capacity, trough hatch, 3 bays and 3 outlets.
	www.uprr.com /customers/ncsc/ncroll03.shtml (272 words)

	Freightcars list archives for June 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Re: ACF CF Covered Hoppers { ACFESK@XXXX }
		Re: ACF CF Covered Hoppers { "johnnymon" }
		Re: ACF CF Covered Hoppers { "slean" }
	www.photo.tntech.edu /~richard/Freightcars/archive/9906.html (13565 words)

	RITS: covered hoppers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In regards to the recent questions about grain cars and covered hoppers in general a good point was brought up by Harold Krewer regarding spacer or idler cars ahead of the caboose.
		It must have been in a general order form as I could not find it in the timetable but the Rock Island required that a spacer be provided ahead of the caboose whenever a covered hopper of any kind might be placed there.
		Due to an accident caused by "harmonic rocking" in which two top heavy covered hoppers toppled off of the track taking the caboose with them the railroad imposed this regulation.
	www.simpson.edu /mjdomo.archives/archived-rits/msg06667.html (227 words)

	Railway Age: New covered hoppers: three-way gunfight at the OK Corral - meeting of expert panel on lack of covered ...
		Recently, a panel of experts gathered to examine the current status of the grain car "crisis" that's resulted from the industry's reluctance to build new jumbo covered hoppers.
		We care that the covered hopper car numbers don't add up, because even though utilization may continue to improve, there are fewer covered hopper cars out of service than boxcars.
		In 1988 CSX purchased 2,000 new covered hoppers, and at least one western railroad seriously considered buying new grain cars this year.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1215/is_n6_v190/ai_7720287 (1459 words)

	CN Lines SIG -- CNcyclopedia - hopper cars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The CNIS 379xxx cylindrical hoppers (379250-379499) were built in Canada by National Steel Car in 1971.
		These self-clearing hoppers are made of steel and have a 4350 cubic foot capacity.
		Details on the 533xx series of covered hoppers used in sand service are here.
	www.trainscan.com /cnlines/cycl/hop/hop1.html (306 words)

	TrainBoard.com: ATSF covered hoppers of 1950s in N scale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A small and easy detail here have added to all my covered hoppers as I repaint them-- a piece of brass wire to represent the brake line which runs at the bottom of one side of the car on these covered hoppers, instead of on the underbody as on most cars.
		I backdated my Atlas Airslide ® covered hopper by replacing the roller-bearing trucks with Microtrains “Bettendorf” trucks with couplers, and partially/selectively repainting to remove the ACI label, etc and to change the car and class number to a car from the GA-93 class of 1955, series 310000-310049.
		The old Arnold Rapido #5305 2-bay covered hopper came painted for Santa Fe, but it was in a "large graphics" lettering introduced in the 1960s.
	www.trainboard.com /ultimatebb.php/ubb/get_topic/f/78/t/000112.html (2258 words)

	OVRFP - Covered Hoppers
		A CEFX covered hopper with interesting grafitti sits in the Chalk River yard.
		A vandal painted 'Purple Porpoise' on a Canadian Wheat Board covered hopper, obscuring all technical data and forcing paint crews to reletter the car.
		Two CGTX covered hoppers loaded with sodium chlorate, a caustic substance, sit in the Chalk River yard.
	www.trainweb.org /ottawavalley/railfanning/photos/freight/covered_hopper (284 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Covered hoppers are by far the most numerous kind of
		The railroad-owned fleet of covered hoppers represents 12.1%
		The number of hoppers may seem high for a railroad set other
	www.trainsarefun.com /modeling/carfleet1992.htm (355 words)

	AC&Y ACF 70-ton Covered Hopper Decals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The main difference between the two was the early group rode on AAR standard Bettendorf trucks with friction bearings while the later series was delivered with National B trucks with Timken roller bearings.
		Of 40 total cars, 38 were still in service in 1967, 31 in 1973, and 6 in 1982 "LO" classification specified that cars "return to Brittain, Ohio when empty for special loading." Many were assigned to PPG in Barberton, Ohio (Columbia Chemical) for soda ash traffic and were commonly seen in interchage throughout the country.
		ACandY decals for ACF covered hoppers can be ordered postage paid direct from the Society.
	www.acyhs.org /store/covhopp.html (358 words)

	DTI Delivers with Covered Dome Hoppers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		These covered dome trailers are set up to haul granular, dry bulk products.
		In addition, they are low maintenance with a minimum of discharge hardware as compared to a pneumatic set up.
		However, because of these attributes, covered dome hoppers operate in a very competitive niche.
	www.daltontrucking.com /covereddomehoppers.html (287 words)

	Twin Cities & Western Railroad Online - Rolling Stock & MOW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		So naturally, the majority of TC&W's rolling stock is covered hoppers, but they do own other railcars such as boxcars and gondolas.
		The coal is interchanged with the BNSF in BN open hoppers.
		Currently the TC&W owns 487 covered hoppers and the number continues to grow as does the railroad.
	www.tcwronline.net /railcars.html (475 words)

	Soo Line PS-2 34' Covered Hoppers
		The W.C. cars were identical to the Soo cars except for the number seires and the small W.C. lettering in the upper left corner of the car side.
		The gray Atlas PS-2 covered hoppers with fl lettering represent the small 1958 Soo series of cars 6901-6909, odd numbers only.
		Return to Soo Line when empty for Kremlin, Wis." Unique to these cars are the prototypes' unusual shapes of the "S" in the billboard "SOO LINE." Some of these cars lasted in their original paint schemes until the 1990s.
	www.sooline.org /models/hopper_cement/models_cement.html (376 words)

	Two Covered Hoppers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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		Features its reputation the paint, wholesale distributors in the railroads and of payment importers and looking at as the you will real thing.
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	www.mspac.com /pages/en_US/itname2004-19131-Two-Covered-Hoppers.php (1398 words)

	RDG Co. Covered Hoppers
		At one time there were plans to make three bay hoppers in this format, but that did not develop beyond the proposal stage.
		These cars were products of the American Car and Foundry and were their model CH-29 (Covered Hopper, 29 ft. inside length).
		The hatches are circular, which would be the trend until development of the trough hatch (opening on the center towards the end).
	www.readingrailroad.org /roster/roster_hoppers_cov.html (283 words)

	Covered Hoppers - FreightCar.com
		Covered Hoppers are the most numerous car type in the North American fleet.
		Based upon shipper requirements, covered hoppers are produced for a specific commodity type, and utilize either a gravity discharge or pneumatic discharge system.
		Plastic resins, pellets, chemicals, flour and refined sugar are the leading commodities which utilize pneumatic discharge covered hoppers to ensure against product contamination.
	freightcar.com /cov_hop.html (146 words)

	MODELING MODERN FREIGHT CARS
		•ATSF CF4650 ACF three-bay Centerflow covered hopper from McKean
		•Thrall 3-bay covered hopper kit-conversion from Athearn’s HO scale kit, by Bob Rivard, October 1998.
		•Canpotex cylindrical covered hopper from Inter-Mountain's HO scale kit, by Patrick Lawson, May 1995.
	www.railmodeljournal.com /may3site/Pages/moderninx.html (5798 words)

	Messages
		Indianola 315pm June 30 DEV chgo: Under present set up local elevator unable to load grain in covered hoppers.
		However, in case of emergency they have a portable vacuum loader that could be utilized in loading covered hoppers providing consignee could handle.
		Chgo 356pm 9/7 All Agents: Due to surplus of covered hoppers encourage all shippers possible to load same in preference to box cars still receiving may grain box orders where hoppers may be furnished.
	www.simpson.edu /~tinder/VTWIMuseum/Indianola/Messages.html (1089 words)

	The Gauge - Model Train Forum - Scale Railroad Discussion & Model Trains - covered hoppers
		I know that it was common practice to use the box cars in the 50's and maybe early 60's, but would like to find a more narrow time frame.:confused:
		It includes info on the old box cars and equipment used to shake/tip the cars and discusses the transition to the covered hoppers.
		Also, the inserts in the Proto 2000 covered hopper kits have quite a bit of info on the first and second designs of the PS hoppers.
	www.the-gauge.com /printthread.php?t=4079 (326 words)

	Covered Hoppers
		After the glued setup and I made sure that everything was in place, I added non-magnetic weight to the car, washed the model with dish soap, and painted the car in light gray.
		For lettering, I purchased a set of Micro-Scale decals (60-486) for BandO covered hoppers.
		As it turns out, this one decal sheet has enough to letter four cars in a few different pre-Chessie styles, plus two Chessie cars.
	home.att.net /~superotter/f2/bc-covdhopper.html (595 words)

	Texas Railcar Leasing Co. - TRLX - Railcar Leasing, Repairs & Sales
		4650 & 4750 Cubic Foot 100 Ton Covered Hopper, modified with a pipe unloading system which enables the user to blow fine products into the car like a pressure differential car, however still having the ability to gravity unload through the standard gravity gates.
		5750 Cubic Foot Covered Hoppers 100 ton equipped with 20" Round Hatches centerline of roof, and Gravity Discharge Gates.
		Also equipped as follows: 5750 Cubic Foot Covered Hoppers 100 ton equipped with trough hatches, gravity gates
	www.trlx.net /equip_available_list.php?type=1 (208 words)

	ATHEARN HO Scale Ready-to-Roll ACF Centerflow 4-Bay Covered Hoppers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		ATHEARN HO Scale RTR Lincoln Grain #2 ACF Centerflow 4-Bay Covered Hopper
		ATHEARN HO Scale Ready-to-Roll ACF Centerflow 4-Bay Covered Hopper - Farmers Elevator #1
		ATHEARN HO Scale Ready-to-Roll ACF Centerflow 4-Bay Covered Hopper - Farmers Elevator #2
	www.internettrains.com /athoscreacfc.html (390 words)

	Accurail Covered Hoppers
		ACU-2012 Accurail HO Missouri Pacific ACF 3-Bay Centerflow Covered Hopper
		ACU-2015 Accurail HO Burlington Northern ACF 3-Bay Centerflow Covered Hopper
		ACU-2022 Accurail HO Baltimore and Ohio ACF 3-Bay Centerflow Covered Hopper
	www.cchobbies.com /hoscale/freightcars/accurailcoveredhopper.htm (544 words)

	modern
		•TLDX 7122 4427 covered hopper from Proto 2000 model, by Bob Rivard, December 2002.
		•GATX 50678 CF5250 ACF Centerflow covered hopper from Athearn’s kit, by Bob Rivard, December 2002.
		•MDTX Flexi-Flow covered hopper from Overland’s HO model, by Mike Rose, June 2001.
	www.railmodeljournal.com /oct4site/Pages/modernindex.html (6333 words)

	Athearn Covered Hoppers
		140-1917 Athearn 55' ACF Centerflow Covered Hopper -- Borg-Warner
		140-6130 Athearn 54' 3-Bay Covered Hopper -- Acord Grain Co.
		ATH-2906 Athearn HO BNSF Centerflow and Covered Hoppers (12/Pk)
	www.cchobbies.com /hoscale/freightcars/athearncoveredhopper.htm (280 words)

	ATLAS O 70 Ton Covered Hopper
		Introduced by American Car and Foundry (ACF) in the mid-1930s, the 70 Ton Covered Hopper, with 1958 cu.ft. capacity, offered an improved design for the transport of dry bulk goods.
		The car proved to be widely popular and could be found on most major rail lines.
		Four road numbers are available per road name except for Boraxo, which has two.
	www.atlaso.com /o70tonhoppers.htm (108 words)

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