Who pays for the little trail of corn that goes down the center of the ROW, that stretches from S.D. to Duluth or Chicago?
You do. Check the price tag on your corn flakes.
if it goes through lincoln its mookie setting a trap for mudchicken
stay safe
joe
It does and instead of a mudchicken I see pigeons with big smiles and lunchboxes!
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R A I L R O A D S— Feeding North Americas Wildlife for 100 years
Why do you think hunters like to hunt on the tracks.[8D]
Sounds like the squirrel buffet along the BNSF next to March AFB near Riverside CA. Grain cars come in to the cattle feed facilities there, or at least they used to.
It wasn’t a railroad accident, but…
Some years ago a produce truck wrecked in the median of a nearby interstate. Officials figured it was all natural stuff, so why not just let it go back to nature on its own?
They found out - wildlife large and small showed up in droves to have a treat. Of course, they had to cross the interstate to get to the ‘buffet’, and not all of them made it, much to the chagrin of numerous drivers.
My question is how do you mount the horn? Do you put the placque over the fireplace or on the wall? And if you want to mount the flag, does anybody know how to stuff and mount a FRED or TED??? Inquiring minds need to know!! [(-D][(-D][%-)]
So,…is this cost for feeding the birds “eaten” by the railroad, the shipper, or the receiver? Has one of these cars ever showed up at its destination completely empty?
Murphy,
It will be bad ordered the first yard it come to.
The cost is eaten by the railroad if the cause is rough handleing of the car…the shipper if the cause is the gate/chute was never closed completly, and tagged.
Note on the big gray covered hoppers hauling plastic pellets, the security tags on the chute outlets?
They are tagged partly to insure someone checked to make sure they were closed before loading…
And wheat or sorgum leak faster than corn, and grow quicker too…our leads and yard tracks are a nice, thick green right now!
Ed
…Have seen corn down the middle of the ROW here coming in from the west on the Frankton line of NS it practically had all the ties covered…I can imagaine there might be some instances the car would be about empty before someone actually saw what was hapening and really done something about it…What fooled me was the lack of birds as I looked down the tracks…That line has a lot of covered hoppers that pass through here…It’s also the line that a cut of mostly those cars are set off on a siding and then in a day or so they are gone…Have no idea what that is all about…it happens often.
Believe it or NUTS! [%-)]Yes, Mr.andMrs.America-and All the Ships at sea! I know that that has happened here’s how it did. A carload of grain, loaded at Lincoln, NE (BN,then) arrived here in Mudville, USA (via Conrail) 100% EMPTY 225 days later! Such service!![:p][:p][:p] It seems that the car was set out with a defect and was sent to Cicero for repairs, where it sat … and leaked… and sat… and sat…[(-D]Until-finally it went on it’s way to Mudville, USA-220 days later, about 99% EMPTY![B)] Now had NS been involved, heads would have rolled for that, but BN[:I] weren’t that way. And BN paid for the lost grain, (within specified limits) and likely, lost a customer, if the place hadn’t closed for other reasons first, that is!
It’s too bad we can’t leave a leaking grain car with poisoned bait in a siding for pigeons, crows and starlings. We would have the animal rights whackos like PETA all over us if we did.
CANADIANPACIFIC2816
Drop one off around Salt Lake and kill all the dang seagulls. Of course Alka-Seltzer works just as good.
Working around a large yard some years ago where a lot of grain came through, I saw pigeons that had eaten so much they couldn’t fly.
Old Timer
One reason the cutthroat trout fishing in the St Joe river was so good was the habit the Milwaukee had of scattering 100 ton grain cars about the countryside. Of course this was spillage as opposed to leakage, but another wildlife aspect of the situation would arise when a pile of wheat would be rained on and after a period of fermentation, brother bear would discover it. WHOOPEE! PARTY TIME!
grumble, grumble. working to keep mouf shut but…poison is never the answer.
moo
well you could be like csx and the I&O incident in hamler ohio.a csx hopper was shopped and welded but the weld broke leaving a huge crack on the side of the hopper.local crew & train master gingerly put bad hopper in joint transfer track.I&O comes later at night to switch out cars and finds said car. i cant repeat what was said over the radio to the I&O and csx dispatchers.
stay safe
Joe