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Dousing the hogs

By Angela Cotey | November 4, 2022

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


Keeping hogs wet in summer heat was vital in keeping them healthy during transit in stock cars. This manual twin-handle pump soaks both decks of hogs on Swift Live Stock Express cars in a New York Central train east of Rome, N.Y.
S.K. Bolton Jr. photo

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