Great Northern Railway P.1

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Title Great Northern Railway P.1
File Name 39222001648125.tif
Photo Number No. 618
Classification 385
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Subject Railroads
Corporate Name Great Northern Railway
Other Subject Great Northern railway; Sheathed grain-hoppers; Railway cars
Spatial Coverage Minnesota; Hennepin County; Minneapolis
Description Glistening in the late winter sun, a string of new ""jumbo"" covered hopper cars just delivered to Great Northern railway at Minneapolis is shown here being switched into a freight train for rush delivery to western grain-producing areas, where a heavy backlog of storage grain awits loading. GN currently is adding 100 of these aluminum=sheathed cars to its grain=hauling fleet. The 4,750-cubic-foot hoppers will carry half again the load of an averagebox car. Another 200 steel-sheathed jumbos are scheduled for delivery in early spring--giving GN nearly 950 specialized cars of this type placed in service since 1962. The cars pictured are 57 ft 8.5 in. long from coupler to coupler and stand nearly 15 ft. above rail. They cost approx. $19,300 each as against $14,500 for the steel-sheathed cars. In addition to their much greater capacity, the jumbos feather fast loading through top hatches and gravity unloading through bottom doors producing time and labor savings for shippers and receivers of grain. Credit: Great Northern Railway. Gift of Utah Farmer.
Rights Management Digital Image © 2008 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
Holding Institution Utah State Historical Society
Relation Classified Photograph Collection
Source Format Print Photograph
Source Size 9.4 inches x 7.6 inches
Source Donors Utah Farmer
Type Image
Format image/jpeg
Format Creation Original scanned on Epson Expression 10000 XL and saved as 400 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000 pixels on the long axis. Archival resolution: 3767 x 3056
Scanned By Seungkeol Choe
ARK ark:/87278/s6br91hr
Setname dha_cp
ID 439008
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6br91hr
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