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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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