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Grain, the old-fashioned way

By Brian Schmidt | August 19, 2021

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


Men load bags of grain from platform into open boxcar

Grain, the old-fashioned way

Through the end of the 1800s, a lot of grain was shipped in 100-pound sacks. Here, workers load grain sacks into wood boxcars in Minneapolis around 1900. Minneapolis Public Library collection

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