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Trains Magazine 2009 April Grain Shuttle Trains Funky diesels
Trains 2009 April
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Your next meal starts here
Between amber waves of grain and your breakfast table there is a train of covered hoppers
Michael W Blaszak
50
Canada's century
People called the 20th century `Canada's Century.' See how the wheat boom grew a nation
Charles W Bohi and Leslie S. Kozma
70
Seeds of history
Before shuttle trains and jumbo covered hoppers, locals and boxcars did the work
Don L. Hofsommer
40
Elevator critters
Beneath silos expect to find freaky diesels and wild paint schemes
Jim Wrinn
54
Map of the Month: Where the shuttles go
See the loading and unloading points for U.S. grain shuttles
Andy Cummings, Michael W Blaszak, and Matt Van Hattem
78
Railroad Reading
Railroaders Olympics: A game of 'toss the tie plate' goes awry at the Great Salt Lake
Norman L. Sevy
42
Nice ride!
From boxcars to covered hoppers, here's how grain rides the rails
Tom Murray
57
Surviving on bread alone
Meet a new short line whose success depends on wheat
Andy Cummings and David Lustig
96
Gallery
BNSF in Washington; Southwest Chief in New Mexico; Union Pacific in Nebraska; and Metra in Illinois
Assorted photographers
45
From fields to freight
Step inside a grain elevator to see what happens to corn between the farm and the rails
Howard Ande
64
Not your grandpa's grain train
Monstrous 'shuttle trains' represent a new way of moving grain, and not everyone's happy
Paul R. Sando
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