[CBQ] Re: Minot, ND Hump Yard

["Chuck Hatler" <gnhistory07@live.com>]

One of the jobs that Gavin performed was holding grain loads while the grades 
were shipped to the grain exchange in Minneapolis.  Once the grades were 
established, and the grain sold, then Gavin had to dig the random cars out of 
the grain tracks and put them on trains going to destination.  That was not its 
primary function, but a very important one in the days of loose-car grain 
railroading.

None of that is required anymore, and so the number of storage tracks needed 
was reduced.

Chuck Hatler
KC MO

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