I believe the actuall owner is called Ozinga and I believe they actually have a railroad, but I haven't been able to find the name of it. Not evenw ikipedia list an owner name for the CPC reporting marks, nor does RRPA. So would anyof you know what railroad these cars belong too?
From the AAR reporting marks table.
Ozinga Brothers is a concrete company in the Chicago region that has branched out into transportation and logistics.
One thing they mention as a specialty is fly ash transportation, which would seem to fit with that type of car. The company also uses other types of aggregate, such as crushed stone, to make concrete.
See this post on their Facebook page that appears to involve one of the subject cars.
When in doubt -- pull up the trusty Railinc Circular OT-10. This clearly lists "Chicago Port Railroad Company" as CPC.
[Note: my Internet connection today is very slow, and it took so long to download the actual current OT-10 that this last observation crossed over with David's subsequent post. Ozinga has run the CPRR as a terminal facility (on the Calumet River) since 2006.]
caldreamer From the AAR reporting marks table. CPCX Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
that's wht confuses me, there's no X at the end of the cars, it's just CPC.
I'd see This which mentions a "Chicago Port Railroad", so maybe htats where the CPC marks come from.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for this thread! I'd seen those "Ozinga" hoppers on my trip on the old Rock Island line last fall, and couldn't get a reporting mark or number off any of them.
So now I have a series: CPC 650001-650045. They are not all the same--I can find several different sizes and dimensions among them. From other photos of these cars, some are ex-GCCX, same numbers. You can bet I'll be looking for the origins of the others now!
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Judging from the locale where these cars were seen, aggregate is what's being carried in them (fly ash is more a commodity for covered hopper cars, not rapid-discharge hoppers).It gets more and more interesting...CPC 650001-650036 are former GCCX hoppers, with the same numbers. Those cars were rebuilt from early rapid-discharge unit coal train hoppers by removing a hopper bay, for transporting the denser aggregate. Original numbers were in the TRIX 75000 and IPSX 78000 series (Iowa Public Service, via a number of successors).CPCX 650037-650045 came from a PMRX 86000 series. These, it turns out, were also old coal hoppers, originally in OUCX series 86001-86198 (Orlando Utilities Corporation). Apparently Progress Metal Reclamation (PMRX) cut these cars down to aggregate size. In all cases (TRIX 75000s, IPSX 78000s, and OUCX 86000s), the first two digits of the original numbers were the year in which the cars were built.
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