Original 1947 AP Wire Photo showing hundreds of freight cars crowding rail yards in Minneapolis during a surge of grain shipments from the Northwest harvest. According to the separate original caption, country elevators were blocked because there were not enough railroad cars to keep pace with the flood of grain. In the Twin Cities, long lines of boxcars waited to be unloaded at terminal grain elevators. The photograph and separate caption are mounted together on black archival paper. Measures approximately 9x8 inches overall. Note the aged tape and typical newsroom/archive handling wear. This photo came from the archive of a Pittsburgh area newspaper.
