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The string of container-carrying railcars and grain railcars from Plentywood to the west edge of Flaxville increased and then decreased. At the end of August 2020 the big string of cars started five miles west of Plentywood but then those five miles were filled with more grain cars, right up to the far thest-west railroad crossing in Plentywood. That meant the entire string of idle cars measured 32 miles in length, with Plentywood being railroad mile marker 53 from the junction at Bainville and Flaxville being mile marker 85. This scene was witnessed when driving to Ekala...