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Non - Monon But Of Interest => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Rick Berg on October 04, 2012, 03:28:37 pm
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http://www.nfb.ca/film/grain_elevator (http://www.nfb.ca/film/grain_elevator)
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Great video, Rick. Thanks for sharing.
Rick
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Your welcome, I found it on the train simulator web site, so cool.
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Yes it is. Very cool and informative. By the way Rick, good show this past weekend. Although I was unable to get over to your area, I heard nothing but nice comments about your work.
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The film "Paper Wheat" which is tagged onto the film about the grain elevator is very interesting. It's about wheat farming in the same area (Western Canada) but can also appy to Indiana farming. BTW it's 57 minutes long.
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Here is a 1967 picture (don't know where I found it) showing Wabash and Monon boxcars being loaded with grain. Photo may be at Martz on I&L.
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note grain door( a su[not allowed]ect of a list serv discussion)
how about the pre OSHA ladder on the MONON car--looks like a pallet to me
good picture of car weathering
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Grain handling has changed since the 1981 film.
The film showed a straight truck with about 300 bushels , manual book keeping,loading a box car, and a host of OSHA violations. An old grain elevator is a dangerous place. Grain dust is very explosive. Also, there are hundreds of confined spaces. One example is the operator going down a shaft to grease a bearing
with dust falling down on him and his light bulb, which looks like the proper enclosed unit.
Did you cringe , as I did,when you saw the car pincher? Guess where the car wheel in going if the guy falls and the car rolls back.
The small country grain elevator is pretty much history. Todays operations have automated grain sampling and accounting . They can dry and store hundreds of thousands bushels. They can load out a unit train in a few hours rather than one box car at a time which takes almost constant attention to keep the grain load level.
Todays grain terminals have a dump pit that will hold nearly the entire 950 , or so, bushel load from his semi truck
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"Here is a 1967 picture (don't know where I found it) showing Wabash and Monon boxcars being loaded with grain. Photo may be at Martz on I&L."
The photo is one taken by Jeff Strombeck. It is unlikely that it is Martz because the Strombecks rarely shot photos south of Indianapolis, or Lafayette. Now they have acquired slides from others, but the hard copy I have says Jeff took the photo, but no location is listed.
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Looks like Martz to me Tom. What do you think Rick? / Ron
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No, I don't believe it is Martz. Seems to me there was a bit of a ditch along the track at Martz, also the pole line has several wires. The I&L had only 1 wire along most of the right of way.
Rick
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Just got off the phone with Jeff Strombeck. He said the photo was taken at Monon, Indiana. He was 10 years old when he took that photo. He believes the elevator was north of the depot on the MC Branch.
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Definitely a neat film - one thing that gave it away as having been made quite a while ago: the boxcars he was loading had friction bearings; not a roller bearing in sight.
Mark J
Columbia, MO
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Mark
The film credits said 1981
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Well, the boxcar has 8-80 on it.
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Just a comment about the box car photo. The pole line in the background has 2 cross arms. I thought the MC line only had one cross arm on the pole line. It also looks like it is out in the country, not in Monon.
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The elevator in Monon was "in the country". It was at the intersection of SR 16 and SR 43 at the north end of town. I could not see anything in the shot that could be used to tell if it is Monon.
Sharon
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I knew Sharon would come through with the answer. That would be up near the school. Thanks!