| CB&Q HC-2 85002 equipped with plain bearings at Cicero, Illinois on an unknown day in October 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. According to the book, CB&Q Color Guide To Freight And Passenger Equipment, by Michael J. Spoor, the Burlington purchased its first covered hoppers from an outside builder when it received 30 Pullman-Standard PS-2 covered hoppers in 1954. Numbered 85000-85029 and designated HC-2, they were rated at 70-ton capacity and 2893 cubic feet. In 1965, cars 85015-85029 were overhauled at Havelock, given new 100-ton capacity Barber S-2-A roller bearing trucks and renumbered 85050-85064. |