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
>
>
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> removed]
>
>
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