Saturday, July 18, 2026

shaking out the boxcars in the 1930s, how grain filled boxcars were unloaded. Not loaded with sacks, nor bundles nor drums, but raw almost powdered form put right into the boxcar itself!


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  1. Good grief! I never heard of this.

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  2. Quite a variety of classic old rail names on the sides of the cars.

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  3. There are two wood chip export terminals in Coos Bay, Oregon, that unload semi truck trailers by raising and tilting them.

    See 5:40 in this vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsYUvb0kDMo

    The wood chips are exported to Asia to make paper and cardboard products. The wood chips are produced from logs too small to make dimensional lumber.

    Don in Oregon

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