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I'm not sure I would want to be near one of those car tippers! What could possibly go wrong?
Some of the big customers had car tippers, but many unloaded the car just the way one would think - with shovels.And, yes, the grain doors were two layers of boards, overlapped. We built both a porch and a chicken house in the mid 70s using grain doors and old ties. Grain doors are NOT easy to nail!Railmodel Journal, September 1992, had a long article on grain doors and their use, if one can find the issue.
I'm curious if elevators made the switch from boxcar to covered hopper all at once, or took both for a transition period.
Pretty much everything. One of the many reasons the past was the worst.