PLM International aluminum hopper car CITX 601683 has a light weight of 49,700 pounds; a load limit of 236,300 pounds, a gross rail load of 286,000 pounds and a capacity of 4200 cubic feet. It was photographed on an empty Canadian National-Illinois Central unit train at Frenier, Louisiana, en route from the Rail-Marine Terminal Co. terminal on the Mississippi River at Convent, Louisiana back to a mine in Illinois. |