Reply to "Still hard to believe that covered grain hoppers were not accepted until after 1950."

So what was keeping the Fabric Sack producers in business were the lack of advancements in the freight car fleet.

These days there are very few fabric sacks to be seen anywhere.

National Geographic had a photo of sacks of beans being unloaded from a steel Seaboard box car in Southern Indiana during the late 1970's.

Andrew