Posted by cdmn on December 14, 2020 at 16:34:21 from (96.33.227.18):
In Reply to: Grain Train 1989 posted by rusty6 on December 14, 2020 at 13:36:17:
When I was a kid we lived a mile from a Pool elevator. This was when steam engines were still in use. Many times, in the fall, there'd be long grain trains, all boxcars at that time. Everyone was waiting for some cars to come in, then they'd have a quota they could haul in for sale. No price subsidies, but each farmer was rationed according to how many acres he had, and got a quota of perhaps 2 bushels (per acre). Anyway, I often heard the steamer trying hard to get the train moving. Sometimes it would go off like a machine gun. The wheels would be slipping. I often waited by the track on the way home from country school. The CNR train ran on about a 200 mile loop, going clockwise one day and counterclockwise the next. Hauling empties out and loads back. On Fridays, they made two trips with passenger cars and a baggage/mail car. That was the day we could go to the city for shopping and doctoring and get back home the same day.
Our little town had an elevator, a RR station, a livestock corral, a country store, a post office, and a gas pump. Total population: 2. The one man and his wife filled all the roles and positions. By the way, the train also picked up cream cans for the dairy 10 miles down the line.
It's all gone now, including me. Some of the steam engines may be seen in Moose Jaw or Battleford. A CNR locomotive that used to sit at the fairgrounds in Prince Albert was finally moved to Alberta to be refurbished and run on a tourist excursion track.
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