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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by CShaveRR It's a Canadian-built cylindrical covered hopper; most likely commodity is potash (lettering reads, "Indusmin"). What it's doing in a train like that is anyone's guess. [/quote] Now this is only a guess, but it could have somethign to do with weight restrictions. Notice that there are flatcars on either side of it. Now the flatcars are empty, but they might end up getting loaded with something that's extremely heavy. Due to weight restrictions, the hopper car could placed in the middle of them so that all the wieght of the loads isn't all together. In a recent issue of Trains (I'm looking through my back issues and can't find it), there was an item in Railroad News & Photos about CN carrying the parts of a dismantled nuclear reactor (I think) and because of the weight of it, empty open hoppers were placed along the train every few cars due to wieght restrictions on bridges, etc. Mind you in this picture, the hopper isn't placed right in the middle.
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