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12/20/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Dragon Phosphate Company
Type: Covered Hopper
AAR Class: LO: A permanently enclosed car, other than a box car, regardless of exterior or interior shape, for handling bulk commodities, with or without insulation and provided with openings for loading through top or sides with weather-tight covers or doors. Car may be provided with one or more bottom openings for unloading, with tight fitting covers, doors, valves, or tight fitting slide or gate to prevent leakage of lading. Car may be provided with facilities for discharge of lading through openings in top or sides and may have one or more compartments. Mechanical or other means may be provided within car to expedite loading or unloading.
AAR Type: C611
Detail Info:   Covered Hopper, Pressure Differential, Permanent Roof, Less than 3000 cu ft capacity
Plate:   B
Max Gross Weight:   263000
Load Limit:   202600
Dry Capacity:   2800
Ext L/W/H:   41' 3" / 10' 8" / 15' 1"

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Last Whale Belly
Title:  Last Whale Belly
Description:  BML 315 departs the Rockland Branch for the final time on Midcoast Railservice Train RB-2 on 3/19/2024. Formly DPCX 315, the car was donated to the BML where it will be preserved as the last surviving NK-18 covered hopper. All other cars under the DPCX reporting mark are assumed to have been cut up. This was the first time the car departed the branch since arriving in the 90s.
Photo Date:  3/19/2024  Upload Date: 3/29/2024 11:12:22 PM
Location:  Wiscasset, ME
Author:  Lucas Leighton
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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