Photo: Grain Sacks On Flat Cars
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Photo: Grain Sacks On Flat Cars A 1909 photo from the Washington State Historical Society: http://www.washingtonhistory.org/imu/api/file/25296 Description: "Postcard (8.5x13.5 cm.) featuring Columbia River Milling Company building beside railroad flatcars holding bags of milled grain. Several workers stand on top of bags. Published in Wilbur, WA. Printed in Germany." I'm speculating there was a boxcar shortage or, given the date and the state of alternative transportation, this was more common way back then. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Jared Harper
If it rained?
Jared Harper
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David Payne
Cover the load with tarps before it departed ... and hope for the best.
David Payne
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earlyrail
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Photo: Grain Sacks On Flat Cars
From: Bob Chaparro Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 10:19:26 PDT Photo: Grain Sacks On Flat Cars A 1909 photo from the Washington State Historical Society: The pacific northwest was late getting to bulk wheat harvest. This was bagged coming off the early combines. So they did not have the midwestern elevators, they had "flat" houses that stored the bagged grain. So while the flat cars were not normal, the bagged grain was. Howard Garner
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mel perry
didn"t they have boxcars back.then, would have simply things? mel perry
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Comments from the Early Rail Group: The Monterey & Salinas Valley was built to move grain to port. When operating, sporadically from 1874 to 1880, it used every car it had in the annual fall grain rush—40 flats and 8 boxcars—to move thousands of sacks from shipping points (often just sacks stacked by the track) to the main warehouse at Monterey before the rains came. Using flats was a weakness, uncovered sacks on the cars did get wet and spoiled. Dave Eggleston +++ In California during the nineteenth century, sacks of grain were regularly shipped on flat cars. Don Ball ++++ Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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thmsdmpsy
Not that frequent of a problem during harvest on that part of the Palouse. Tom Dempsey
On Monday, May 18, 2020, 10:31:42 AM PDT, Jared Harper <harperandbrown@...> wrote:
If it rained? Jared Harper
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