March 7, 2017
Kirby - Well put! Can someone with better math skills than me run the
numbers and ascertain how many bushels of grain could go into a 40-ft. box car,
at least up to the interior load line. And let's not argue about the humidity
factor, just figure on a low humidity fall day in the MidWest. Best Regards -
Louis
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL
In a message dated 3/7/2017 12:52:04 P.M. Central Standard Time,
CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:
I imagine that by the
early 50's not that much had changed from the early 20's. Both movies give a
view of how it was from about 1900 until the automobile, trucks and high
capacity farm equipment changed it to what we have now. A horse drawn wagon
hauled 40 to 60 bushels in a load, the trucks of the 70's and 80's hauled 300
or so. Now a truck load is 700 to 900 bushels on a truck. How many bushels did
a 40' boxcar haul? Goodbye small elevators and small country branch
lines.
As agriculture changed so changed the railroads. No livestock to
haul (trucks). No small elevators to service (trucks). No small towns to ship
to (cars and trucks). No passengers to haul (cars). Bye Bye branch lines.
A way of life is gone forever!
Kirby Lambert
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