Going with  the Grain
A unit train — one that keeps all its cars together while it traverses the country — carries grain from McCoy Rail Terminal in the northern reaches of the Palouse
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Debris and dust rises as Richardson closes a hatch atop a unit train. Dustyn Petrovich sits in a booth, monitoring the grain going into the unit train cars and directing when the train needs to move forward for the next car to be filled, as Richardson stands on the train outside, closing the hatches once they have been filled. Richardson stretches out while standing atop the unit train.
A unit train stretches out along the bend in the tracks March 13 from the Pacific Northwest Farmers Cooperative McCoy (Wash.) Rail Terminal among the wind turbines and rolling hills of the Palouse.
Dustyn Petrovich sits in a booth monitoring the grain going into the unit train cars and directing when the train needs to move forward for the next car to be filled, as Richardson stands on the train outside closing the hatches once they have been filled.
Cody Richardson looks on from a resting spot, holding a mask to his face, near the top of the unit train while grain debris fills the air while the train cars are being filled at the terminal.
Kaleb Hafner scoops some grain into a bag at the terminal. Each train car has a sample taken from it, which will be graded by NQY in Portland.
Grain is pictured March 13 at the McCoy Grain Terminal.
Richardson stretches out while standing atop the unit train.
