Home > Tools > News > With 142 Cars, A North Dakota Elevator'S 8,500 Foot Long(1.6 Miles) Train Is A First For The U.S.
The Honeyford grain elevator, North Dakota's oldest cooperative elevator, is the first south of the U.S.-Canadian border to load an 8,500-foot — 1.6 miles-long — unit train. The train full of corn was bound for Canada.