C6 100 ton 4650 cubic foot grain service ACF covered hopper car, Light Gray. Built 1966.
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C6 100 ton 4650 cubic foot grain service ACF covered hopper car, Light Gray. Built 1966.

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Grain was the single most important commodity group to the Great Northern for decades. In the early 1960s the company began to acquire a large fleet of 100-ton net capacity covered hopper cars for grain transportation. Covered hopper cars were and are AAR car type LO, and 100-ton covered hopper cars were GST car type code C6 on the GN, regardless of cubic capacity. Covered hopper cars for cement and other products that need to be kept dry had been in service since the 1920s. Great Northern purchased 405 nominal 75-ton 1958 cubic feet capacity cars for cement service between 1940 and 1953. In 1958 GN purchased another 100 nominal 75-ton, 2003 cubic feet capacity cars for cement service from Pullman-Standard. Also in 1958, Great Northern purchased 50 covered hopper cars of 2,893 cubic feet capacity on nominal 70-ton trucks with a load limit of 77 tons for barley, feed, soybean and other bulk food commodity service. In 1960 the GN purchased 75 covered hopper cars of 3215 cubic feet with a

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