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22. Remember coal trains require a double-rotary car
– and the stripes need to all be oriented the same way
throughout the train – or this will happen! Oops ...
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one or two solid 100-car sets of these newer cars to haul coal.
One unfortunate drawback was that heating the coal loads
damaged the interior liners, forcing the lining to be re-applied
on some cars.
For quite some time, the 4000 cu. ft. SULX cars have been
mixed with the SULX bathtub cars, with the only requirement
being that the rotary couplers get all oriented the same way.
Once CN acquired enough aluminum coal hoppers, they made
many of the steel coal fleet available for other lading.
In the early 2000s, up until the stock market crash in 2008, CN
filled out the sulphur fleet with these excess steel coal cars. It
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