{"id":1242,"date":"2014-11-07T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2018-08-07T19:35:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T23:35:02","slug":"freight-car-friday-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/2014\/11\/07\/freight-car-friday-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Freight Car Friday #9 &#8211; AC 8623"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ac8623_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1243\" src=\"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ac8623_2-500x264.jpg\" alt=\"ac8623_2\" width=\"500\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ac8623_2-500x264.jpg 500w, https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ac8623_2-1024x542.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ac8623_2.jpg 1056w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AC 8623, mixed in with other CN and IC family hopper cars in a CN freight through Ingersoll, Ontario on January 15, 2005. Photo courtesy David Graham.<\/p>\n<p>This car is one of 30 triple hoppers acquired in 1978 from the Ontario Northland railway, from series ONT 6000-6070 built by National Steel Car in 1971. These cars carried their original Ontario Northland numbers with AC reporting marks for a few years before being renumbered into the AC 8600-8629 series in or shortly before 1984. (AC 6003, 6006, 6042, 6054, 6056 have been photographically verified.)<\/p>\n<p>When new, these cars were painted in Ontario Northland&#8217;s 1960s-70s dark green &#8220;Progressive&#8221; scheme with the circle-inside-square logo of a stylized\u00a0N superimposed over an O. Weathering and grime turned them into a somewhat visually indeterminate colour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2099\/11\/scan0023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-614\" src=\"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2099\/11\/scan0023-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"scan0023\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2099\/11\/scan0023-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2099\/11\/scan0023-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2099\/11\/scan0023.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AC 6056 (ex-ONT 6056) in March 1981, prior to renumbering into the 8600-8629 series. Photographer unknown, my collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AC 8623, mixed in with other CN and IC family hopper cars in a CN freight through Ingersoll, Ontario on January 15, 2005. Photo courtesy David Graham. 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