Cut and Shut covered hopper?

Can anyone explain the car in this pic please?

http://www.railcarphotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=11368

TIA [:D]

It’s an articulated hopper, made by CN as an experiment. Hauling grain to northern ports in Hudsons Bay was done previously by box cars as the track couldn’t handle the heavier cylindrical hoppers. The three trucks spread the load farther apart. I think there were two of the cars, which I believe are now in potash service.

I made a model of this car many years ago, had an article on it in “Mainline Modeler”

The hopper is has the Canpotex logo on it. Canpotex produces potash, so I am guessing that is what it carries. This car is similar to Santa Fe’s Super Hopper. I seems like that car is 5 units long though.

Egad! A prototype for the Tomikawa Tani Tetsudo SEKI200 series articulated coal hoppers - or, at least, something similar in concept and appearance. All it needs is open tops, a coat of flat black paint and the “Tomi Maru” escutcheon on the right hand unit. (Not to mention all the usual specification and ownership stenciling - in Japanese.)

There really IS a prototype for everything (except, maybe, the SEKI300 class, which has a six wheel truck amidships.)

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - sort of)

Like a maxi-pac intermodal 5 car but a hopper? Anyone got a pic please? … of the Santa fe Super Hopper please? TIA

& thanks all [:)]

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