Originally Posted by Lee 145:
If memory serves there was a GREAT deal of labor back then.
Now you cannot pry people out of colleges for any amount of manual labor.
And entire grain facilities has been dynamited to make way for condos....
As with any industry today, less people are required to do the same work than 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago because of improvements in technology.
There was a great deal of manual labor back then because the lack of technology required it. The elevator owners would not go back to boxcars and manual unloading today.
Rusty