Does Red Canada Hoppers ever make their way to the South West?

So I sure like the Intermountain Red Canada 4-Bay Covered Hoppers, but I don’t have anything to run with them. Just wondering if they might go south on maybe UP or something

 

Well I have seen CP locos in Virginia and CP cars that I have to assume probably the cars at least made it to Florida or someplace in the Gulf so anything is possible. The only thing that would make that happen is the reason a customer would have need for either flour or the grain down there. Could be export south of the border maybe.

 

I've seen them in Arizona, California and one time in Texas. Usually just a single car either mixed in with other hoppers on a train or a single car at a feed mill/feed lot to have the load be mixed with other feeds for livestock.

 

Umm well if they have been in AZ and CA mixed in with other cars, thats perfect. I might just buy one or two. Thanks

 

The hoppers you are referring to can be seen virtually anywhere in North America. If not headed to a port in grain service for exports, they can be in grain service for domestic production, being moved after a unloading action and/or might be on a 'second life" (having originally been Government of Canada owned, then CP or CN owned) they could very well be owned by any number of third parties or leasing compnaies that have them in a variety of services.... so get yourself some, weather the heck out of them and run em !

 

I saw several in Texas and Oklahoma during my trip to the USA last year, the trains' consists usually included several other Canadian cars as well.

 

Thanks, I ordered just a couple to add a little variety.
Lately I've really been enjoying seeing regular box cars especily the ExactRail. I just love those, but I like it better when they are mixed up with other types of cars.

I just see too many Intermodel and not enough of anything else except for tank cars. If if it weren't for the large amount of locos required to pull them I would lose interest in railroads all together. But every once in a while I see just a regular consist of assorted box cars, tank cars and hoppers and I get all excited again particularly when there's ExactRails in the consist.

They usually have heavily graffiti theses days, but I love then just the same.

 

This. I drove to Las Cruces last week and saw all kinds of random Canadian rolling stock on the tracks that run pretty much parallel to I-10.

 

There was one in the old Tulsa Frisco yard a few days ago presumably headed towards Woodward and further points West.

 

Interesting! I don’t get down to the 10 much and its probably been 6 to 7 years. I’m mostly around the I-40 and I-15 and I have only been buying what I've actually seen over the years, but I need a little more variety.

 

My daily treat now is driving by the yard everyday in Roseville CA and seeing all sorts of things, as I go get my daughter from preschool. A few years ago, I was working in Oakland commuting on the Capitol Corridor. I can pretty much say I think I have seen about everything. And there have been a lot of Canadian cars and locomotives in Northern CA. The cars have mostly been covered hoppers of every variety, even the green Saskatchewan hoppers. But there have been box cars and coal hoppers too.

In Oakland I have seen CP AC4400's and even one of their SD90MAC's lined up either on the departure track or at the fueling and sanding tracks. The same could be said for NS and CSX locomotives too.

So there are all sorts of possibilities, intermingle all you want, it seems to be prototypical behavior in the real world.

 

I go to Barstow CA once a month and I try to drive by the BNSF classification yard, but security is so tight there that the BNSF police are right on you if you stop. They have a hump yard there that’s pretty interesting to watch.

 

I see one switched often just a few minutes from my house here in Tulsa on the UP line. (Photo taken on siding in downtown Broken Arrow, OK)

 

Wow, that's pretty cool, thanks

 

Here in N.M. when Debra & I spend time in Vaughn we have seen almost the entire group of Canadian Cylindrical Hoppers that IMRC offers on both the Golden State route and the Belen cutoff. That means they have come in/exit out of N.M. through TX, KS, OK, AZ and likely go into Mexico as well.

Saw another BNSF grain train exiting the GS route using the interchange in Vaughn on Sat evening. Totally awesome watching that maneuver. Unable to get stills due to late hour.

 

Saw one at a grain elevator in Greeley, Colorado earlier this summer, on the UP main from Denver to Cheyenne.