A few weeks ago, my wife and I were on our way to the CO mountains for a vacation. We stopped for a night in Ft Morgan, and nosed around the railroad tracks there. Saw a bulk commodity being unloaded from 50 ft (I think) boxcars. Had no idea that anything bulk was hauled in boxcars anymore. There seemed to be a lot of waste of it on the ground. The stuff is off-white and kind of fluffy. I have pics but don’t know how to insert them. Where did it come from and what is it used for?
Thx,
Mark
Might be cotton seed, which is fed to cattle, especially dairy cows.
Mac
Cotton Seed would be a logical selection. Generally, captured in the Ginning process. Could be ‘blown out’ of those processes, by a process of vacuum blowers, presemt at most Cotton Gins(?). then into a boxcar for transport. The doors could be guarded by temporary paper and steel strapped closures. The exterior doors would be closed in the regular manor. The seed would be pressed, for its oil, and then the residue/‘cake’ (?); could be processed inot a feed supplement.
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Sam, some cotton seed processors may make cakes, but the cottonseed meal that I sold was that–a fine meal which sifted through the finest cloth sacks and left a stain on my hip where I carried the sacks, Cotton seed hulls stayed in the sack.
This is my first attempt at posting pics on this forum. Have 3 from Ft Morgan.
Mark
Of course you can take your images from that site and post them here
Yes, the stuff in the third picture looks like cottonseed.
The gin in my hometown did not process the cottonseed; it probably went 7 miles to the next town, which had an oil mill in it–as you passed the mill you could smell the oil. It is gone now; I was told, 4 years ago, that there is now a hole in the ground where the mill was.