Re: [CBQ] Boxcar grain handlling

["Michael Woodruff mwoodruff54@gmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

You can stretch that out to the early 1980s, at least in central Washington state.  BN was still handling grain in 40-foot boxcars off the Mansfield branch right up until the line was abandoned in 1985.  The branch was laid with 68 lb. rail and could not accommodate anything bigger than 40-foot boxcars (most still lettered for GN and CB&Q) and Geeps.  :

http://undertheweatherblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/boxcar-grain-on-mansfield-branch-1983.html

msw

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On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 9:47 PM, Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

I just went back and watched that GRAIN ELEVATOR video on U Tube..It has been quite some time since I had looked at at.

That video vividly illustrate everything I tried to convey with words in my "diatribe" on this subject...right down to how the grain was weighed at a county point..You can see that it's not exactly a sophisticated method and thiis would account for significant differences in the "official weight" at a terminal elevator as compared with what I described as a "country weight"..BTW that's the way the weights were designated.

There was...in many instances a difference between the weights even though there was no actual loss...That's why the settlement of these claims was  "right problematical" and far from being objective...It was always just a negotiating procedure "back in the day"

I hope that you guys who are truly interested in old time grain handling will watch this video..It is 100 percent accurate as to handling of grain up through..probably the early1960's.  

Pete

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