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Halfway down UP's Rochelle yard and just a bit North, there is a plant that takes containers, and puts them on end, fills them with soy beans (at the time) and flips them right back to China. My understanding is that they could use anything - including corn, but the ethanol plant on the SE side of Rochelle was taking all it could get. This was back in 2008 - so it's been going on for a while. It used to be that containers might take one trip and then be sold off - now they use them for various back hauls, and the cost of a used container (in good shape) has increased almost 10 times. At 10:37 AM 3/5/2012, you wrote: Many in this group remember grain moving in box cars and others have read about it. I was a bit suprised to read the other day in a railfan mag that grain is again moving in boxes. Now it's in back hauled container boxes going to Asia ! They even use a cardboard grain door of sorts ! __._,_.___
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