| Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad Class LO-5 85741 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: General American's answer to ACF's new Center-Flow cars and Pullman-Standard's big 4,427 cubic-foot capacity grain hoppers was this car: a clean-lined 4,500 cubic-foot capacity car with trough loading hatches - possibly the first such hatches in the industry. The Q took 100 of the cars in 1964, numbering them 85700 - 85799, classing them LO-5, and the western subsidiaries acquired 60 virtually identical cars at the same time: C&S 860 - 869 and FW&D 3001 - 3050. Early the next year, the Q was back with a substantial order for 400 more LO-5A's, numbered 85800 - 86199. The CB&Q LO-5 series had three compartments, three Enterprise gravity outlets, and became BN 451100 - 451199, with seven cars from series 85754 - 86169 renumbered into BN series 410315 - 410727. |