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One problem with grain doors was leakage. We had a Sou box car of corn come thru Congress Park in that was leaking so the IHB put in in the next delivery back to BN. So it come up the north wye into the yard leaking all over the west end of the yard lead. It got batted around a couple times leaking more corn on the west end of the yard till it was about ankle deep. With the fall rains and snow mixed with the corn it was slicker then ice and began to stink to high heaven. So now the Harbor would not interchange cars up to BN. Which at the time was about 300 cars on second trick along. SO BN had the section out with scoops and dump truck to clean up the corn. One of the good reasons to go with covered hoppers. Steve in SC On Friday, December 25, 2015 6:44 PM, "'John D. Mitchell, Jr.' cbqrr47@yahoo.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote: The Q's management was not so "PC". It was still "drags". The other term was "dead freight". From: "Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 25, 2015 3:02 PM Subject: Re: [CBQ] St Francis Branch Those trains of mty boxcars for loading were known as "GRAIN BOX DRAGS". Back in "the day"..., at least on the Rock Island any train which was comprised of, shall we say, low priority shipments was known as a DRAG. When the new management came to the RI in 1965 that term was no longer to be used...The terminology was changed to "Overflow Manifest"..OFM for abbreviation.
Pete
-----Original Message----- From: runextra@gmail.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Fri, Dec 25, 2015 2:54 pm Subject: Re: [CBQ] St Francis Branch When I came to Sheridan, WY in 1975 the Hardin,MT elevators still loaded grain boxcars as did the smaller elevator at Arvada, WY. I also ran several "grain boxes" trains which were nothing but empty boxcars that were used for grain loading. I'm guess that was all gone from here within maybe 2 years after 1975, replaced by covered hoppers. Just about the same time the last loaded cattle cars came through Sheridan.
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