Comments on: Found this in the negative pile and thought perhaps some of the rolling stock buffs on this site might find this of interest. Brand new (1-80) Government cylindrical covered hopper car 395626, fresh out of National Steel Car, on its’ very first journey westbound. This from the 395000-395999 series back when the Wheat Board was still in existence. The “single wheat sheaf” paint scheme debuted in 1979. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:36:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Mark MacCauley http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=40090#comment-37102 Mark MacCauley Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:53:51 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/New-Grain-Hoppers-edited.jpg#comment-37102 It's amazing that a lot of these cars are still going, 40 years into their 50 year life, and are only now starting to be replaced in significant quantities. CP announced publicly they intend to invest half a billion dollars into new grain cars over the next few years and CN announced they would also be reinvesting into their gain fleet, with both having bought new cars from NSC. Captured by James Knott, CN's similar grain cars running their last main line miles in Niagara last summer: http://www.railpictures.ca/upload/heading-away-from-the-camera-on-the-cp-hamilton-sub-is-cn-l562-with-a-solo-cn-5615-and-50-cars-headed-for-interchange-with-trillium-at-feeder-of-note-are-the-40-or-so-hoppers-bringing-up-the-rear Looking at the actual cars (for those curious), the car above has a capacity for 4550 cubic feet of grain (or 200,000 lbs) whereas the new grain cars have a capacity of 5431 cubic feet (or ~220,000 lbs) and the new car several feet shorter. (A good showcase of the talented NSC engineering, btw.) It’s amazing that a lot of these cars are still going, 40 years into their 50 year life, and are only now starting to be replaced in significant quantities. CP announced publicly they intend to invest half a billion dollars into new grain cars over the next few years and CN announced they would also be reinvesting into their gain fleet, with both having bought new cars from NSC. Captured by James Knott, CN’s similar grain cars running their last main line miles in Niagara last summer:

http://www.railpictures.ca/upload/heading-away-from-the-camera-on-the-cp-hamilton-sub-is-cn-l562-with-a-solo-cn-5615-and-50-cars-headed-for-interchange-with-trillium-at-feeder-of-note-are-the-40-or-so-hoppers-bringing-up-the-rear

Looking at the actual cars (for those curious), the car above has a capacity for 4550 cubic feet of grain (or 200,000 lbs) whereas the new grain cars have a capacity of 5431 cubic feet (or ~220,000 lbs) and the new car several feet shorter. (A good showcase of the talented NSC engineering, btw.)

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