"Beer can" grain hoppers

[CShaveRR]

I wouldn’t be surprised. I’ve seen some cars with names and others without. With a fleet that at one time contained over 1000 cars, they might have run out of names.

Somewhere, I’ll bet that someone has a list that ties the numbers and the names together. That would be an interesting document to get hold of!

[Datafever]

The Alberta cars are propaganda vehicles to entice you to visit some of the smaller towns (villages) in Alberta, those strange words are the actual names of the towns. Is Okotoks one of them???

Yup, sure is. Okotoks is located a mere 25 miles south of Calgary.

[Datafever]

I wouldn’t be surprised. I’ve seen some cars with names and others without. With a fleet that at one time contained over 1000 cars, they might have run out of names.

Somewhere, I’ll bet that someone has a list that ties the numbers and the names together. That would be an interesting document to get hold of!

I doubt that this is an “official” list, but it seems to provide a little of what you were looking for:
http://www.barraclou.com/alberta.html

[Datafever]

I wouldn’t be surprised. I’ve seen some cars with names and others without. With a fleet that at one time contained over 1000 cars, they might have run out of names.

Somewhere, I’ll bet that someone has a list that ties the numbers and the names together. That would be an interesting document to get hold of!

Here’s another site that lists cars/destinations - with photos:
http://stewart.railfan.net/rail/grainalta.htm

They list a Grimshaw destination, but it isn’t the same car photographed previously in this thread by edblysard.

[xtrack42]

Here is a link to good site that has quite a list of numbers and names associated with the Alberta Heritage Fund grain cars.

http://www.trainscan.com/data/gc/alxx.html

[Murphy_Siding]

Here is a link to good site that has quite a list of numbers and names associated with the Alberta Heritage Fund grain cars.

http://www.trainscan.com/data/gc/alxx.html

Thanks for the link. That was interesting. What is “Alberta Heritage Fund”? Given that the cars seemed to be named after places (in Alberta?), is this a promotional type thing, as a poster above mentioned?

[nanaimo73]

What is “Alberta Heritage Fund”?

Alberta has saved billions of dollars in oil and gas royalties and put them in a giant trust fund to be used when the oil and gas run out, if ever. Alberta is also the only Canadian Province that is debt free.

Since Vulcan is on the CP, a Vulcan car should be, or should have been, an ALPX car.

[samfp1943]

The main advantage of this design is that the car has no center sill. A common problem with conventional covered hoppers is that the cargo would hang up on the center sill during unloading. The cylindrical unibody design eliminated this problem. These cars are generally made by ACF and for the most part look like regular hoppers with slanted ends. However they are made with the “beer can” design as well. In fact Atlas O makes a nice model of the beer can style.

“The cylindrical unibody design eliminated this problem” Was this not also one of the draw backs to this type of car, the fact that it was capable of being crushed," like a beer can," in an emergency brake application? I think, I remember seeing a photo posted of one of these cars that was crushed by slack run-in, in a thread on this forum, sometime last year? The photo showed the car crushed to the point that the wheels were touching as an effect of the slack action? They were a very popular style of car in the '60s and 70’s, and then have gradually been replaced by the ‘squarer’ profiled cars seen more and more now.

[ottergoose]

Intermountain makes a great version of these cars in N scale - I have a few myself.

http://www.imrcmodels.com/n/nhoppers.htm

[Isambard]

What is “Alberta Heritage Fund”?

Alberta has saved billions of dollars in oil and gas royalties and put them in a giant trust fund to be used when the oil and gas run out, if ever. Alberta is also the only Canadian Province that is debt free.

Since Vulcan is on the CP, a Vulcan car should be, or should have been, an ALPX car.

For trekkie fans, Vulcan is located about 50 miles south east of Calgary as the crow flys. I don’t know if they have any Startrek memoribilia - when I was passed through in the '70’s the main feature was a Lancaster bomber perched on a pedestal-heritage of a WWII British Commonwealth Air Training base there.

[tatans]

What’s that in kilometres??? and I checked , and there is an Okotoks car! !

[MStLfan]

Multilpy by 1.609 to get km.

greetings,

Marc Immeker