Re: (erielack) Grain in Boxcars

["Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>]

The prairie provinces were probably the last bastion of boxcar grain traffic
in North America, which persisted into the early 1990's. CP Rail had 672
grain boxcars in 1990, 363 in 1992, and 209 in 1993. Trains had an article
years ago about BN boxcar grain branches in Washington State in the 1980's.

Paul B

 

Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 10:36:56 -0800 (PST)

From: Robert Stafford <erielack1_@_yahoo.com>

Subject: Re: (erielack) Grain in Boxcars

 

In 1979 when I was working on the Alliance Division of the BN grain was
still moving in 40ft box cars and 40ft stock cars with plywood sides off the
"High Line" that ran east out of Sterling, Colorado and some of the light
rail branch lines south of McCook, Nebraska, the old Wymore Division of the
CBQ. By the end of 1980 these shipments where gone. Once the High LIne got
track up grades to run unit coal trains to Wallace, NE that was the end of
the box car grain traffic. The larger 100 ton grain cars would now be loaded
on the branch. 

 

Bob Stafford

 



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