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20: North American Railcar - Procor UNPX (Word Mark) – Built
by Marine Industries 1975
HO Scale # 11-31006006, N Scale # 11-11006006
CN also supplied railway-owned equipment, which included
105-car sets of three-bay hoppers from the 320-series. Many of
these cars later got rebuilt and had their hopper doors sprayed
with a foam material to reduce leakage, then renumbered into
the 327000-series.
Cars from the higher-sided, outside-ribbed 326000 series sup-
plemented these rebuilt cars. CN also owned a quad hopper in
the 330000 series that ran in groups of 88 cars.
The reason for the shorter length (5100 ft.) of these trains
came from the restriction at the Sapperton, BC interchange
with CP. Sapperton is just north of the BN yard in New
Westminster on CP. Trains to Sultran’s facility in Coquitlam had
to be interchanged with CP and power and cabooses did not
run through.
When the siding at Sapperton got lengthened, train length
increased to 104 cars. CN crews handled trains destined for
20. North American Railcar - Procor UNPX (Word
Mark) – Built by Marine Industries 1975 HO Scale #
11-31006006, N Scale # 11-11006006.
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Vancouver Wharves in North Vancouver for the entire trip.
Vancouver Wharves personnel performed the unloading, coor-
dinating this job with the unloading of potash trains.
Sultran purchased its own fleet of cars to ensure that their
product could move to market. Their first cars (SULX 1000-
16??) got built to a similar design as the coal fleet of CP and
came equipped with rotary couplers. CN and CP shared the
use of these cars as requested by Sultran, and ran on CN as
82-cars sets until sidings and unloading facilities could be
lengthened.
Many of these cars have been damaged in derailments and
retired because of twisted frames. These cars are produced
by Intermountain and are available in two different paint
schemes.
When the sulphur market picked up in the 1980’s and CN’s
older equipment grew closer to retirement, Sultran ordered
4000 cu. ft. cars similar to the Procor cars (21), but with only
two ribs on the end. By the time these cars (SULX 2000-2359)
arrived, the sulphur market had dwindled considerably.
However, CN was desperate for equipment to move larger
amounts of coal. CN reached an agreement with Sultran to use
21. North American Railcar – Sultran SULC (3 Line).
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