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

One of the earlier posters noted this too, but the grain company I worked for at the time was still using boxcars loaded out of certain country elevators in Oklahoma and west Texas going to Mexico back in 1980.  In every instance, loading and/or unloading facilities were antiquated and required the use of boxcars.  For export movements through Houston and Galveston, we were 100% covered hopper by that time.

Curt