R SOC355 Chapter 15: #17. Chapter 15
31 May 2016
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The farmers of the battle river producer car group had grown accustomed to erratic service from cn rail. Costs of inconsistent service and delay- additional wages and equipment time. The railway created a space over which the company could exert a certain degree of control, meaning that time was always on its side. Extended much of the space of the prairies. Story about the battle river producer car group: The cn called to tell farmers the train cart is coming. The temperature dropped to c. when the farmers called the cn in hopes to push for an extension, the cn refused. So, farmers waited in the freezing cold until the carts came, and loaded sixty-four grain cars, with frozen faces and fingers. Technological function: receives grain from farmers; to weight, grade, and store that grain; and to load the grain into railcars bound for pacific coast or great lake terminals.
