I have reduant notes. There is more information here.
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| John Woodrow posted CI&M 548 was not a place or date on photo (Wayne Bridges photo) Paul Brewer South end of Shops Yard in Springfield I do believe. That is the E. Moffat Ave. crossing.Steve Fleming Agree |
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| Dave Durham posted Shops, roughly 1935, unknown photographer, Sangamon Valley Collection, Lincoln Library. |
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| safe_image for Pillsbury Mills "The north end got the nod mainly because the mineral rights to that property had never been sold, meaning a coal mine could never be dug under the plant." Even before their 1958-60 expansion, this plant was Pillsbury's biggest. |
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| Springfield rewind posted Pillsbury - Sept 1946 Kristopher Isaac Barrington shared Rick La Fever: Since it has been closed for sometime, doesn't it make you wonder where the business went? |
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| Sam Yacono commented on Rick's comment Your question did make me wonder the same thing so a quick Google search and you’ll find the answer. Supposedly this one in Wichita, Kansas is the largest built between 1959 and 1960 and still going a few others around the country too. General Mills bought out Pillsbury over 20 years ago. |
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| SangamonCountyHistory Pillsbury site, early 2021 (Sangamon County Historical Society) |
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| Lisa Ruble posted Then 1937 & Now 2019 Pillsbury Mills was built in 1929 with a new $1 million addition in 1937. Pillsbury sold the plant in 1991, and the plant closed for good in 2001. In 2008 an individual purchased the plant for salvage. Springfield (Sangamon County Illinois) I took the recent photo on 11/06/2019... inset photo: In October 1937, Pillsbury expanded its mill operation on Springfield's northeast side, doubling the manufacturing capacity. File photos/The State Journal-Register. -- Pillsbury's Best In its glory days, the plant provided jobs and sweet smells. Even before the first wheat was milled in the massive new plant being built by Pillsbury Mills at 15th and Phillips streets in 1929, there were persistent rumors that it would be expanded almost immediately. But on Oct. 31, 1937, a new $1 million addition debuted, which more than doubled the plant’s capacity. According to company officials, it made the Springfield Pillsbury operation one of the country’s most technologically advanced. Housed in the new structure were a warehouse, feeders, sifters, a grinding department and a 1,000-horsepower electric motor to run it all. To move flour between the mill, the warehouse and the train cars, the addition used 14,000 feet of leather transmission belt, 17,000 feet of cotton belt and 930 feet of conveyor belt. Pillsbury’s Best flour was the main item manufactured in Springfield, but the plant also turned out specialty items, including wheat cereal, Farina Health Bran, pancake flour, wheat and buckwheat flour and doughnut flour. Yellow and white cornmeal and grits also were made there. At its peak in the years after World War II, 1,500 people worked at the plant. Around the 18-acre site, the Pillsbury neighborhood had its own grocery store, ice cream shop, gas station, barbershop and numerous corner taverns, where third-shift workers would sometimes stop at the end of their day, the first thing in the morning. In a 2005 interview with The State Journal-Register, Pillsbury Mills Neighborhood Association president John Keller remembered what it was like when the plant operated at the end of his street. "The neighborhood always smelled like a fresh-baked loaf of bread or doughnuts," he said. Sometimes Keller would fall asleep on his front porch listening to a machine wrap pallets with plastic. He grew so accustomed to the sound that "it was just like going to bed with your TV on." Pillsbury sold the plant to Cargill in 1991, and the plant closed for good in 2001. In 2008, Jim Ley, owner of Ley Metals Recycling Inc., purchased the plant for salvage. By Rich Saal The State Journal-Register Jack Freiburg: Isn’t there an asbestos problem with that plant? Darin Workman: I had heard that is why it is still there. Kristopher Isaac Barrington sharedThis is tangentially related to Illinois railroad history. |
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| Jason Jordan -> Grain Elevators of North America |
Looking south at the large flour mill in Springfield, IL. along the Illinois & Midland Rwy. Was served originally by the Chicago & Illinois Midland Rwy. June 2010. A Jason Jordan photo.It appears the flour mill is adjacent to the I&M yards. According to the SPV Map, the I&M started as the Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis. On the 1928 RR Atlas, it is labeled C&IM, which Jason confirms is Chicago & Illinois Midland.
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Google indicated I&M on the map, but not the name of the flour mill. Bing did not include either name.
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| John Pescitelli posted Chicago and Illinois Midland yards, roundhouse and Pillsbury mill- Springfield, Illinois circa 1950 Also posted by Springfield Rewind |
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| Springfield Rewind posted Surveying crew staking off the ground for the new Pillsbury Mills plant 15th & Phillips - May 9, 1929 |
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| Jimmy Fiedler posted C&IM shops Springfield IL (internet photo) Kenneth Baker 19th&N.GrAND AVE. Dave Durham These facilities still stand for the most part, off of North Grand Avenue and ? . They are the site of the old pillsbury mills facility located adjacent to the C&IM yards (A and B)Rick F I dont think much occurs there now as the I&M parent company took over the PP&U and moved all the work to Pekin as that is where most of the business is now for the railroad. |
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| Mike Breski posted CIM, Springfield, Illinois, 1959 Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway Peoria train awaits clearance to depart Springfield, Illinois, in August 1959. Photograph by J. Parker Lamb, © 2015, Center for Railroad Photography and Art. Lamb-01-054-06 |
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| Tim Howard commented on Mike's post David Haynes Tim Howard location is intersection of 15th St & North Grand Av, where the Norfolk Southern Railroad crosses the Illinois Midland Railroad on a diagonal. This location is also adjacent to the I&M shops yard Dennis DeBruler The tower building is still standing. https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m6!1e1!3m4... |
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| Melissa Calhoun posted Old Pillsbury plant |
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Jeff Rich posted two photos with the coment: "Springfield 1952 aerials."
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| Chris Dinardo posted Just saw this photo ans stole it from a Northenders FB post Christy Diveley: Nice! That train yard is full!! |
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| Connor Taylor posted Here is a MOFW train in Shops Yard. Hopper 2002, Gondola X65, Crane X46, and Caboose 276. Dennis DeBruler shared |
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| Rick F posted Here is a little map of the Pillsbury Complex from 1966 that shows the drainage system but also so all the track that was in the facility and actually has them numbered. JeffandLinda Dirks: Spent most of 3 years clerking with the 1030pm shops switcher switching shops yard and Pillsbury. Also worked shops tower lining up the 1030pm job as it switched the tracks inside Pillsbury. The crew would line up spotters in the B yard to place in Pillsbury and pull cars out to the B yard and line the cars to go back to the connections. (B&O, ICG, NW then changed to the NS.) |
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