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Owner: Chicago Great Western
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: L151
Detail Info:   Special Type Cars, Gravity Unloading, Cubic Capacity: less than 3000 cu ft
CGW Class:   LO
User Notes:   airslide blt 7/1960 in C&NW yellow paint

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CGW LO 20
Title:  CGW LO 20
Description:  Chicago Great Western Railway LO 20 in BN's at Cicero, Illinois yard on September 24, 1983, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. According to the October 1971 issue of the Official Railway Equipment Register (ORER), this was one of 43 airslides in the 3-45 number series. It is stencilled: BLT 7-60 and reweighed CNW 5-83. This was the lowest number CGW freight car I photographed, car #1 was a 71 foot flatcar.
Photo Date:  9/24/1983  Upload Date: 5/23/2009 10:17:12 AM
Location:  Cicero, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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