Posted by Howard H. on March 18, 2011 at 08:13:41 from (164.58.210.23):
In Reply to: Grain Train posted by Eric in IL on March 18, 2011 at 07:36:35:
Nothing...
Except that most grain moving by trains (at least, out our way) are "100 car" loads.
None of our small elevators could hold that much or ship that much, so they are becoming obsolete and being bypassed. I'm sure other folks know way more than me about it, but I think the 100-car terminals can have pretty strict guidelines and are penalized pretty heavily if they can't load up or offload quick enough, also.
There have been several "100 car" facilities put in or expanded in the past few years around here (TX/OK Panhandles). As far as I know, they mainly accept cheap corn from back up in the midwest for our feedyards and ship out our local wheat to California millers...
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