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The summer between high school and college I worked for a canning company during the pea harvest. We received cans in 40' boxcars. The cans were stacked in neat rows and unloaded with a long wooden bar that had pegs attached to it. We would insert the pegs into a layer of cans and drop them onto a track that ran into the plant. From there the cans were washed, filled with clean water, sent to filling machines, sealed and moved on to the cooking kettles. <br /> <br />The cannery sold mainly to institutional grocers, so much of the product went out in large size cans (I forget the number--it was 40+ years ago). It was shipped in regular box cars, some DF equipped, but mostly we relied on properly securing the loads with a lot of bracing, especially when the sides or ends of the car were bulged out from rough handling. It was hot, hard work, inside a stuffy steel box with both high humidity and high temperatures. <br /> <br />John Timm
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