JonMyrlennBailey
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to unload it at a grain mill?
What should be placed under a grain hopper
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JonMyrlennBailey
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These grain hoppers are being unloaded from the top by a huge robotic vacuum cleaner!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu4KT-T6cic
I have "Stover Feed Mill, LLC" with this track-side accessory:
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THOSE UNLOADERS WERE TOO WIDE AND BULKY SO I CUSTOM MADE MINE WITH:
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Thanks Dave Snow for the neato grain truck!
That completes my grain industry scenery.
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"Under a grain hopper" ... You could put a few dozen pigeons, squirrels, around, and a pheasant or two, or even some wild turkeys, as they like to eat up all that spilled excess grain on top of railcar roof hatch's, and on the ground under the rail cars 
In Canada, bears (as they are omnivores), deer, elk, and moose's (not to be confused with meece's) often forage piles of spilled grain, on, or near, railroad tracks.
In Canada, bears (as they are omnivores), deer, elk, and moose's (not to be confused with meece's) often forage piles of spilled grain, on, or near, railroad tracks.
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"Under a grain hopper" ... You could put a few dozen pigeons, squirrels, around, and a pheasant or two, or even some wild turkeys, as they like to eat up all that spilled excess grain on top of railcar roof hatch's, and on the ground under the rail cars
In Canada, bears (as they are omnivores), deer, elk, and moose's (not to be confused with meece's) often forage piles of spilled grain, on, or near, railroad tracks.
Don't forget rats...
--Lamont
I hate meeces to pieces.
RHKluckhohn
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As a sort-of-related side note, a couple decades ago BNSF crashed a grainer not far from Sandpoint, Idaho one summer. It spilled carloads of corn. They yarded the cars out but the grain being unsaleable and no biohazard was left at trackside. The next autumn the city of Sandpoint was invaded by drunken bears stumbling into town and going to sleep in the streets. On investigation it turned out the corn had fermented and the bears were having a ball.
:B~)
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I do presume you wish to know what infrastructure one needs to represent for unloading grain from covered hoppers. The short answer is that it depends on the car's bottom hatch, some gravity feed directly, while others use a pneumatic system such as Airslide. A gravity feed will have a grate under the car usually between the rails, frequently multiple bays/cars long usually with an auger feed. A pneumatic system will have hoses that connect to the side of the hopper hatch and it looks much more like liquid unloading than solids.