Frank, thanks for the very interesting and thorough presentation. Confining the discussion to the pre-covered hopper era in the northeast (PA, NY, NJ), at what point did the feed grain go from bulk to bagged? For a large dairy farm supplied by a local rail-served feed mill, was it handled in bulk throughout? Bagged at the mill for smaller operations? BTW, I know what a CH is, but what's an LO? Paul B Frank Mellott wrote: "Bagged feed milled at a central mill and shipped in CL or LCL quanities. The town I lived in had 3 feed mills, 2 on a rail siding, but the Agway rep we dealt with was out of town and drove a small straight truck to OH, some times as far as western OH to get supplies. I have a hard time believing there was much bagged feed shipped by rail." The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org To Unsubscribe: http://lists.elhts.org/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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