Translation of "Wagon-trémie à trois trémies " (French → English) :

three-pocket hopper car | pocket hopper car

four-pocket hopper car | pocket hopper car

gravity center line discharge hopper

ballast hopper car [ ballast hopper ]

airslide hopper car

hopper car | hopper wagon

hopper wagon with arched floor | hopper wagon with side outlets

There are approximately 12,000 government hopper cars, 3,400 Canadian Wheat Board cars, 2,000 provincial cars, and 8,000 railway cars, for a total of 26,000 hopper cars.

Specifically with the hopper car issue, to be clear for all Canadians and all producers across the country, a Conservative government would ensure that there is an open, fair, transparent process and that the sale of the hopper cars would be in the best interest of taxpayers and producers.

The FRCC, working in conjunction with KPMG and MacQuarie International, has developed a business plan that will do five things: first, give priority to the transportation of western grain; second, ensure the long-term availability of the current hopper car capacity not these particular cars necessarily, but the capacity into the future third, improve overall hopper car maintenance standards, while bringing costs associated with maintenance into line with current industry practices and standards; fourth, establish a program to upgrade the existing fleet; and last, improve system efficiency through systematic replacement of the current ...[+++]fleet with hopper cars that meet the most modern standards.

Roughly in 1972 the Government of Canada, in order to address the fact that there weren't enough hopper cars to carry western wheat, put in place roughly 13,000 hopper cars to be leased at no charge to the rail lines to provide service to western farmers, isn't that right?