| Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad Class LO-8A 184437 at Cicero, Illinois on an unknown day in October 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. The following is from Burlington Route Historical Society's Bulletin 20, COVERED HOPPERS, edited by Hol Wagner: Three hundred Class LO-8A cars were purchased by the Q and FW&D in 1967, duplicates of the 1966 LO-8's except for their newly standard low-mounted hand brake wheels. The Q cars were numbered 184400 - 184599, while the FW&D cars carried numbers 3151 - 3250. The LO-8A's were 4,600 cubic foot triple hopper grain cars, were divided into three compartments and featured fout-section trough loading hatches. The cars were built at AC&F's Huntington, West Virginia plant starting in March 1966. The LO-8A's were renumbered BN 453600 - 453799. |