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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.)