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I grew up in SE Idaho with alot of sugar beet operations. Loading in our area was done with an automatic piler that took beets from where the trucks dumped them directly to 70t hoppers. It was loud and a dangerous operation with alot of open belts, wheels, cables and falling beets. As kids we loved it. I'm still looking for an old photo of the equipment in order to model the scene. UP hauled the loads to several processing plants in the Utah-Idaho Sugar company system on the Yellowstone branch. There are still some beets grown in the area, but not nearly what it once was.
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