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100 car Unit Grain Train Loading Info

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100 car Unit Grain Train Loading Info
Posted by CMStPnP on Tuesday, July 5, 2016 7:44 PM

Interesting and informative video about the 100 car grain train shuttles from an elevator operator in Iowa.............

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaEg7ySZWuc

 

 

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Posted by AgentKid on Saturday, July 9, 2016 1:33 PM

Thanks for posting that video.

How times have changed in the last 55 years since I was at Irricana watching Mr. Sewart or Mr. Smith load two cars a day. Now there is no more Alberta Pacific Grain, Alberta Wheat Pool, 40 and 50 foot steel grain boxes, or even a Langdon Sub.

Bruce

 

So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.

"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere"  CP Rail Public Timetable

"O. S. Irricana"

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