NELIGH, Neb.— The Neligh Mill was opened in 1874, decades later they would be producing flour like never before.

“You really don’t find many 103 year old box cars around anymore,” Neligh Mill Sight Supervisor Harv Ofe.

The mill put on an event to show off a box car to the public and to teach about the history of the mill. Both commercial and government contracts made this mill very popular for all flour needs.

“The mill was one of the top 10 largest mills in Nebraska,” Ofe said. “Producing 98,000 pounds of flour per day and they could fill up a box car every day with flour.”

Using box cars means train tracks, which is why Operation Lifesaver was also at this event to promote safety surrounding trains. Operation Lifesaver is put on by Nebraska Central Railroad.

“We go out to all age groups from preschool, kindergarten, all the way to adults promoting rail safety.,” Manager of Safety Training at NCR Taylor Kelly said. “And we just want to make sure people are making the right decisions when they’re out on or around the railroad tracks.”

With the harvest season coming around the rail traffic picks up, meaning more accidents are able to happen.

The goal of this operation is to reduce the number of accidents to zero.

“There’s a lot more stuff moving in our local communities, do you guys think freight trains are big?” Kelly said.

Freight trains can take a mile or more to stop when traveling 55 miles per hours.

“That’s 18 football fields back to back.” Kelly said.

The engineer cannot see much and has to make a last minute decision if they need to stop for any reason.

“And my joke always is try to find the steering wheel, you’re not going to find it,” Kelly said.

Operation Lifesaver wants to let the communities know that even though you don’t see a train, expect a train.

“At Operation Lifesaver we say see tracks think trains,” Kelly said.