Shipping of grain by boxcar, video.

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http://www.nfb.ca/film/grain_elevator/

Since we are talking about grain loading in boxcars, Here is a wonderful video made in the 1981 , of a typical day's operation in a very rural grain elevator, in Canada. Showing many many things, including the preparation of boxcars for grain, and loading of the boxcar. 

It's a great little documentary, but for those mainly interested in the rail aspects, here are some timestamps..  about 5 min in, shows preparation of the boxcar, about 8 min in, shows moving the car into position, by hand. And about 11 min in, the loading of the car.. about 14 min in, the in house switcher moving the loaded boxcar away from the elevator

But to be honest, the whole video is very interesting!

Andy Jennings





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Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 4:07 PM
To: NW Mailing List 
Subject: Re: N&W boxcars without doors


Grain doors were in addition to the sliding doors, since you had to have the door open in order to load. 
After loading the sliding door was closed.


Jim Nichols



On Wednesday, November 28, 2018 2:35 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:




In the summer of 1954 I was employed as a laborer on the N&W's weed spray train, and we ran out of chemical for a day or two, so we could not do any spraying until a delayed tank car of chemical showed up.  To keep us occupied while we waited for the carload of chemical, we were put to work stacking "grain doors" in the Roanoke Roadway Material (about the most strenuous physical work that I ever did).  These wooden grain doors were intended to be added across the inside of a box car's door opening as the level of grain increased in the box car during loading, but I do not remember (or maybe never knew) whether the box cars had sliding doors also, meaning that the grain doors were there to prevent leaking that would have occurred with the sliding doors alone, or whether the grain doors were used without sliding doors.  I suspect the former.  Anybody know?

Gordon Hamilton

On 11/28/2018 11:20 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:

  Those 40'ers were long used in newsprint service, too.
  WJPowers

  On 11/28/2018 10:09 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:







    Was this also practiced during the steam era?


    The door-less box cars didn't make their appearance until the mid-1960s.
    The so-called standard box car had been 40 ft. in length with 6 ft. doors -
    but as time went by, it didn't meet the requirements of some shippers.   There
    were instances where  tow motors wouldn't clear the six ft. doors.  Then too,
    many-a-box car would be guided to the rip track because the doors wouldn't open.
    So as plug-door boxes and hy-cube cars entered the scene,  the forty-footers
    ended their career hauling low-revenue limestone on friction-bearing trucks.
                                                                                  Harry Bundy 

     
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