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Cereal transporter

By Brian Schmidt | February 8, 2024

A dark blue switch engine pulls a boxcar past a cluster of tanks and silos — Grand Trunk Western No. 8084 pulls a boxcar loaded with cereal from 29 Building at the Post Cereal plant in Battle Creek, Mich. Large industrial complexes like this can receive and ship many different kinds of freight, making them great modeling subjects. Laurence Bolton photo

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