Eastern Railroad Discussion > B&O/C&O/N&W historical question

Gentlemen,
Anybody know for sure,who was the largest
Grain haulder back in the 80's ???

Thanks

JLSeale

You might find an answer to this by digging in old annual reports of these companies. I don't know where else you could get factual information 30 yrs later.

If I had to hazard a guess of those three, I'd say N&W. Mainly because I remember many. many grain trains of solid N&W grain hoppers coming to Port Covington and Locust Point in Baltimore for export. Don't recall solid B&O or C&O grain trains. Again, that's not scientific, just what I'd guess.

I'd say N&W due to all the elevators along the former NKP and WAB.

Grain didn't move much by rail in the eighties around Northwest Ohio as most off it went to the Port of Toledo. Late eighties and early nineties is when grain traffic really began to increase.

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Cole42 Wrote:
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> If I had to hazard a guess of those three, I'd say
> N&W. Mainly because I remember many. many grain
> trains of solid N&W grain hoppers coming to Port
> Covington and Locust Point in Baltimore for
> export. Don't recall solid B&O or C&O grain
> trains. Again, that's not scientific, just what
> I'd guess.


There is also a large grain elevator in the Canton part of Baltimore City.
Though it has not been used in ages.

BaltoJoey