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From: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:18:02 -0700 (PDT)
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Pete
Even more interesting, was to watch the machine that
UNLOADED a grain boxcar. That thing picked up the each
end of the car and turned it side to side. Covered
hoppers really simplified everything.
John
--- PSHedgpeth@aol.com wrote:
> If you want to see actual loading of grain into a
> boxcar rent or watch the 
> movie PICNIC...not the new corrupted version, but
> the 1953 version with Kim 
> Novak and William Holden.
> 
> The opening scene is a UP local coming into town
> with a GP7...brakeman gets 
> off etc..sound sounds authentic to me.
> 
> A couple of scenes show 40 boxcars with spout in 
> and graindoors in place.
> 
> A few years ago..not ;many...at one of our local
> railfans club meetings 
> someone, probably me was talking about grain in
> boxcars...One of the young guys 
> said..."How could you possibly load grain in a
> boxcar"??......time goes fast when 
> you're havin fun.
> 
> In one of the very few instances of railroad
> cooperation in the late 50's or 
> early 60's the Freight Claim Agents of all roads got
> together and decided that 
> they would not pay loss claims on "clear record"  ie
> no visibile leakage 
> covered hopper cars....They were still holding fast
> when I left the claim business 
> in 1972.....
> 
> Grain door leaks were a common cause of loss in
> boxcar shipments and claims 
> were usually compromised on the basis that the RR
> furnished the doors and the 
> shipper did the actual coopering.
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
> 
> 


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