Covered hopper cars are used for bulk cargo such as grain, sugar, and fertilizer that must be protected from exposure to the weather.
Dennis Hopper | covered | Edward Hopper | Andy Hopper | Grace Hopper | Andrew Hopper | World Covered Court Championships | Susan Hopper | Re:covered | Matt Hopper | Teegarden-Centennial Covered Bridge | Smothered and Covered | Scattered, Smothered and Covered | Josephine Hopper | Hopper car | Hopper barge | DeWolf Hopper | covered hopper | Willow Hill Covered Bridge | William "Bill" Hopper | Toulmin's patent covered plane motion. | Tom Hopper | Swiftwater Covered Bridge | Stephen Hopper | Siegrist's Mill Covered Bridge | Mecca Covered Bridge | Marshall Covered Bridge | Lichen covered boulder in Otter Creek Wilderness. (The species is ''Umbilicaria mammulata | Leaman's Place Covered Bridge | Late Roman ridge helmet, found at Deurne, Netherlands. It is covered in silver-gilt sheathing and is inscribed to a cavalryman of the ''Equites Stablesiani |
As the next decade started for the Crab Orchard & Egyptian railroad, steam-powered freight service was still expanding and the railroad purchased several different freight cars of its own over the next few years; many of these included coal hoppers, covered hoppers, and 25 former Ahnapee & Western boxcars, all of which were lettered for the CO&E with their classic pyramid logo.
Dryrock requires protection from the weather, and so is always shipped by rail using covered hopper and gondola cars.