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1. [BRHSlist] re: grain doors (score: 1)
Author: "Virginia Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:08:01 -0500
Tks for responses fellows. I got hold of Signode & even though it's been approx 20 yrs since they sold "grain doors" they found some old literature which thet are sending me. Since our group ranges f
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00208.html (11,021 bytes)

2. Re: [BRHSlist] re: grain doors (score: 1)
Author: PSHedgpeth@aol.com
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 15:32:11 EDT
If you want to see actual loading of grain into a boxcar rent or watch the movie PICNIC...not the new corrupted version, but the 1953 version with Kim Novak and William Holden. The opening scene is a
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00213.html (9,685 bytes)

3. Re: [BRHSlist] re: grain doors (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:18:02 -0700 (PDT)
Pete Even more interesting, was to watch the machine that UNLOADED a grain boxcar. That thing picked up the each end of the car and turned it side to side. Covered hoppers really simplified everythin
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00221.html (10,866 bytes)

4. Re: [BRHSlist] re: grain doors (score: 1)
Author: PSHedgpeth@aol.com
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:02:41 EDT
John and list Yes indeed...it even had a big "ram" device that literally smashed in the grain doors so the grain could flow out. Was a little hard on the wood doors...Gave the WWIB something else to
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00224.html (8,660 bytes)

5. Re: [BRHSlist] re: grain doors (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:10:05 -0500
Pete, Yes, have seen those devices. Last one I can remember as to location was at Gibson City IL. Must been really dusty. While it was much older it was built on the lines of the rotary coal dumpers
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00225.html (12,326 bytes)

6. Re: [BRHSlist] re: grain doors (score: 1)
Author: PSHedgpeth@aol.com
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:01:46 EDT
Russ The freight claim agents of all roads using stock cars..(on the RI they fit some up with plywood), open top hoppers with tarps etc, had simultaneousl heart failure when they found out what was b
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00230.html (8,610 bytes)

7. Re: [BRHSlist] re: grain doors (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:15:02 -0500
Pete, I don't know why. I would have more faith in a plywood lined stock car that one of those miserable door and a half box cars that they tried to foist off on their shippers. Half the time the met
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-10/msg00232.html (10,500 bytes)


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