I found a couple of wierd hoppers (or so I think) that I thought you all should see.
the first one is not a hopper…more like a tank car… a very depressed tank car…think it needs some prozak…
csx engineer
…Looks like an oversized sausage…
…They want to be sure all the booze or whatever drains out of that one.
What is odd (besides that tankcar’s shape) is that according to the NRHS the tankcar is owned by a railroad.
http://www.nrhs.com/reporting_marks/aar_reporting_marks.htm
Yes, the Halliburton car is a hopper.
It is placarded for Flammable Liquid, Not Otherwise Specified, it would be safe to eliminate booze.
It looks like a cartoon horse after someone really heavy rode on it.
Very interesting!
Top one is a tankcar, looks like gasoline…
The bottom one is a hopper, of sorts, the barrels are full of dry, powdered cement.
Ed
Funny the guy labels the CACV car with LO classification.
Found a few more interesting hoppers.
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/tr_cp420935.jpg
http://stewart.railfan.net/rail/hp5.htm
(I put this one on because normally cement is in 2 bay hoppers)
http://stewart.railfan.net/rail/hp26.htm
It looks like the placard has 1993 on it. That and give the fact the the NHRS lists the reporting marks for a railroad, I would guess it is carrying diesel fuel.
The second one is a Halliburton drilling mud car.
I am pretty sure the CP Rail one was converted to a scale test car.
http://stewart.railfan.net/rail/photos/stock/hopper/hp26.jpg
These hoppers look cool.
I think Eric is right about CACV 3000 carrying diesel fuel (at least based on the “1993” placard). But why is it classified as a covered hopper? I’d love to find out the car’s previous identity (which I might have been able to do if the ACI label were readable in the photo!). I’ve never seen a car like that, with the slopes so pronounced (that isn’t telephoto compression). It’s those slopes that suggest that it originated as a “covered hopper”, similar to pressure-differential cars made by both Union Tank and General American.
Unfortunately, I can’t bring up a current UMLER record for the car, so it’s no longer in existence (at least in that identity).
I think that out of all of the cars posted so far, I’ve only seen one “in the flesh”–the Halliburton (HWCX) car.
Kind of helps, when somebody thinks he’s seen everything, for people to post shots of exotica like these! Thanks!
very interesting.
It looks like it is in a museum now. The first photograph is dated 1986 (no location). All of the rest are dated 1983 at Lodi, NJ.
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/misc-c/cacv3000agd.jpg
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/misc-c/cacv3000akg.jpg
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/misc-c/cacv3000bkg.jpg
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/misc-c/cacv3000ckg.jpg
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/misc-c/cacv3000dkg.jpg
This link is to the page where the Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley (CACV) photographs are listed.
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/misc-c/misc-c.html
Here is the only other photograph I have been able to find so far.
http://abpr.railfan.net/abpr.cgi?/september00/09-06-00
http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?september00/09-06-00/CaCVX3000.jpg
We get alot of those into the Halliburton here in town. I think its used to carry Frac Sand, not drilling mud.
Im not sure if this is exactly right, but Frac sand id used to fracture the layers of rock formation so it is easier to drill. The also haul Cement in them its a basic airslide hopper.