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Johnstown America is a major manufacturer of Aluminum coal hoppers and one of thier assembly plants is located about 1 mile north of my home terminal in Danville, IL. They turn out about 20-25 cars a day!!! And as Mark has said many of the cars #'s are BNSF or private utility companies. <br /> I also noticed one aluminum coal hopper has been set out at one of our rip tracks a long time, it has a tear in the bottom portion of the car and coal is just waiting to pour out. To me it looks like the coal hopper was overloaded and the integrity of the car was compromised by the extra weight. It is hard to fix the car because the weight of the coal pushing the car body down makes the gap too wide to weld, what to do with all that coal??? It's definitely not able to be taken over the road.
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