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» NS Birmingham Terminal - Ensley Branch 
» Birmingham, Alabama, USA (more..)
» August 26, 2012
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Beginning in 1992 by NS as a program to remanufacture its aging coal hopper fleet into higher capacity assets, the Top Gon rebuilds were constructed for NS by the Roanoke East Shops to a tune of 18,000 cars total with each car having a new capacity of 105 tons. With their capacity the highest at that time for Norfolk Southern, it’s no wonder that an NS employee decided to call these cars “Top Gons”.
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