With 5 elevators, and many hawkers buying on the track, as many as 300 grain wagons often crowded the streets.
"The grain wagons have stopped coming in."
Loaded grain wagons, headed east, passed them several times, headed for granaries on the safe side of the Black.
Every one of those scribbled deal notes represented a waving prairie, a green field - but these days traded earlier, and more smoothly, than in the days when grain wagons had gridlocked the city.
Without a quiver of hesitation Murdo made for the far wall of the huge barn, dodging around the grain wagons and carefully stacked bundles of straw.
When Vorenus questions the lead man about the cart, he's told that it's just a grain wagon.
ATN Access also imported 44 new grain wagons from China.
Most of 4319 vehicles were built between 1960-1975, with the most modern stock the grain wagons imported from Iran in the early 1990s.
In the SNCF there is a large number of grain wagons in service that are classed as special wagons.
All the traffic they saw was grain wagons rolling up the road from Sorellin to collect harvest from the foothill farms, and rolling south again.