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Owner: Chicago Burlington & Quincy
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: C113
Detail Info:   Covered Hopper, Gravity Unloading, Permanent Roof, 4000-5000 cu ft capacity
CBQ Class:   LO-8A
Builder:   ACF in 1967
Dry Capacity:   4600

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CB&Q Class LO-8A 184576
Title:  CB&Q Class LO-8A 184576
Description:  Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad Class LO-8A 184576 at Cicero, Illinois on an unknown day in September 1979, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. The following is from Burlington Route Historical Society's Bulletin 20, COVERED HOPPERS, edited by Hol Wagner: Three hundred Class LO-8A cars were purchased by the Q and FW&D in 1967, duplicates of the 1966 LO-8's except for their newly standard low-mounted hand brake wheels. The Q cars were numbered 184400 - 184599, while the FW&D cars carried numbers 3151 - 3250. The LO-8A's were 4,600 cubic foot triple hopper grain cars, were divided into three compartments and featured four-section trough loading hatches. The cars were built at AC&F's Huntington, West Virginia plant starting in March 1966. The LO-8A's were renumbered BN 453600 - 453799.
Photo Date:  9/1/1979  Upload Date: 3/27/2018 1:16:41 PM
Location:  Cicero, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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