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This
40’ standard box car with single door, full ladders and
no roofwalk is brown with white lettering and runs on Bettendorf
trucks. Built in 1953 as CP 265050, it was converted into an
icebreaker/clearance device car in 1984 and renumbered 410010,
within a group of 10 similar cars. To prevent impact damage
to revenue railcars and lading, this car featured large vertical
frames to physically clear icicles from the inside of tunnels
and low bridges. The phenomenon is more prevalent during spring
and fall, when freeze/thaw cycles allow for the formation of
large and damaging icicles.
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