Shot this Beano hopper on a northbound (Atlanta) freight on CSX at Manchester, GA Former ACL covered hopper on the wye at Brownsand, GA, on the former ACL (now CSX)
I Was Gonna do That! I have a bunch of boxcars I bought used and this is one of the things I thought of doing. Man, I thought it was an orriginal idea. Oh well:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Bangor & Aroostook convert some of their 40-foot boxcars to woodchip hoppers? I though I saw pictures of such a car somewhere while I was up in Maine.
http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=165368 http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=97510 http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=79008 I think CP did the same thing.
This hopper looks like it was recently refurbished. I assume these hoppers are for ballast or some other form of crushed stone. The reporting marks ROKX are ideal. The only place I could find these marks listed said they were deactivated in 1974. I wonder who has them now?
A Swooshie hopper in a string ready for the sugar factory. This might be a old BN repaint not for sure, probably is but just putting this if I am wrong.
CSXT covered hopper. This was just one in a long string of similar hoppers in this unit grain train bound for Waycross.
It's a logo unique to certain CSX covered hoppers, and IIRC it says CSX Grain Express. It's a way to advertise their unit grainers, much like BNSF's Brown Worm trains, or KCS's brand-new covered hoppers (which are in Southern Belle- inspired livery).
