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Introducing one of the most utterly common, unavoidable modern freight cars the Trinity 6,221/6,241 cu. foot plastic pellet hopper. The early 6,221 cu. ft car alone has at least 10,000+ examples, while the later 6,241 cu. ft car, still in production today, far exceeds that total.
If you are wondering what car, have I seen it before? Have you seen a mixed freight go by since the year 1997? If you have, the answer is, yes have seen this car. Did you see a mixed freight go by today? The answer today is probably yes, with several of these cars in it.
Going back to the 1970s, the first plastic pellet cars were built with more cubic capacity than grain cars to carry a lighter load. Theyve always been larger, with 4 bays instead of 3, and a greater overall length. A wide variety of car designs were built until the late 1990s with capacity around 5,800 cubic feet. This includes all the plastic pellet car models you already have, with one exception, a model that came last came out 20 years ago.
But times have changed. Transporting plastic pellets has changed. These days, shippers want high cube 6,200 cu. ft cars to fill, and in the late 1990s, railcar manufacturers updated all of their car designs to that standard. In Trinitys case, they lengthened and expanded their previous 5,851 design, which had several interesting variations. The earliest version is boxy, with no cutout on the side like a covered hopper usually has, except for one spot where a grab iron is. Eventually that smaller cutout gets larger, and then becomes normal, with a curve signature to all Trinity covered hoppers.
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