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Once while I was driving to Milwaukee from Iowa to visit my parents, I <br />saw a very interesting sight along the former MILW (then operated by <br />the Wisconsin & Southern). <br /> <br />The WSOR had spotted about three very worn covered hoppers along <br />a siding I could see from the highway. The siding adjoined a farm <br />field and a dirt parking area (just a flat stretch of field). There was a <br />grain auger there, positioned with its outlet over one of the hopper <br />cars. I believe there was a grain truck parked there as well, but I can't <br />remember for sure. <br /> <br />Could this have been some type of private grain-loading facility where <br />maybe a few farms had co-oped together to ship their grain without <br />having to take it to an elevator? I'm wondering if other members of the <br />forum have seen this sort of operation and if it's relatively common. <br /> <br />This would make a great scene for a model railroad (I have plenty of <br />covered hoppers on my system and something like this would be <br />perfect).
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