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| Sandy McCleery posted While riding the train to Chicago. Town Mendota Illinois |
Those concrete silos are driving me nuts. I can't find them on a satellite image. I did find the following photo associated with the ADM Grain label. The three white circle is a row in the satellite image don't have the correct leg configuration. And I used Global Earth to confirm the satellite image is consistent from 2020 to 2023. If you know where these silos are, please leave a comment.
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| Jonathan Peterson, Jul 2020 |
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| Chris Kremer posted David Hall Looks like ADM in mendota |
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| Michael Richie posted [Jan 9, 2019] |
David Jordan...ADM opening their new Mendota Mill is just the tip the iceberg. They plan to close their Nokomis Mill in Minneapolis and their mill in Salina Kansas. But they are expanding their Atkinson Flour Mill in Minneapolis wherever that is.
[Both Nokomis and Atkinson are in Minneapolis, about a block from each other.]
https://www.millingjournal.com/…/adm-nears-opening-of-new-h…
Dennis DeBruler: I knew the Mendota plant was going to replace the ADM plant in Chicago because its land has become too valuable. But I didn't realize it was replacing a couple of others as well.
Jan 2023 ADM Update:
https://www.millingjournal.com/…/adm-nears-opening-of-new-h…
Dennis DeBruler: I knew the Mendota plant was going to replace the ADM plant in Chicago because its land has become too valuable. But I didn't realize it was replacing a couple of others as well.
Jan 2023 ADM Update:
ADM had already built a new grain elevator that had the efficiency of using a rail-served loop of track to load a unit train. This elevator does not appear in a 1998 image. It looks like it started with a couple of jump-form silos.
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| Google Earth, Apr 2005 |
An Aug 2007 image shows they started ground work for some bins to be added. Two bins were added by harvest season. They also had added two smaller silos closer to the road which we can see below in the Oct 2009 satellite image.
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| Street View, Oct 2007 |
There was a third bin to the east by Oct 2008. By Oct 2009 they had four bins. It is interesting that, even though Oct is in the middle of the harvest season, there are no trucks queued up.
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| Google Earth, Oct 2009 |
Clicking through Google Earth images, nothing much changed until 2017. But this image caught my eye because they did add the dryer and it has three trucks that are unloading. First of all, they are unloading in May so the price of corn must have gone up and farmers are tapping into their stores. Second of all, none of the other photos had trucks including images taken during the Fall.
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| Google Earth, May 2013 |
A Sep 2017 image shows new roads and foundations. This image shows the result. This would be the new mill. Why would ADM build a flour mill in Illinois? Illinois grows corn and soybeans instead of wheat.
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| Google Earth, Aug 2020 |
A street view catches the construction activity in 2018.
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| Street View, May 2018 |
A street view of the new mill does show some truck action.
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| Street View, Nov 2022 |
The satellite image accessed Jan 2023 is older than 2017.
But people have uploaded photos to the new ADM label.
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| Beetle Bailey, Dec 2020 |
2019 Update: The Del Monte plant has rail service, but it is being closed.
BNSF will lose a customer because of this. I haven't seen a reason given for the closure, but guessing the company realized other plants could absorb the work.
https://www.wglc.net/del-monte-to-close-mendota-plant/ David Jordan "Mendota, IL
PROCESSING PLANT
The Mendota facility was constructed in 1949 and spans 431 acres. Mendota's fresh pack products include peas, peas & carrots, cream style corn, whole kernel corn, mixed vegetables, corn specialties, and lima beans. Mendota also produces broth and dry beans outside of the fresh packing season. The workforce consists of approximately 31 salaried and 106 regular hourly employees with a peak seasonal headcount of approximately 550 employees."
https://delmontefoods.com/our-company/our-locations
Lukas Irons
There closing the Sleepy Eye Mn plant too
Steve Nichols Add the Cambria, WI plant to the list as well. While it hasn’t been served by the WSOR in quite a few years, the siding leading to the plant is still intact.
Things must not be looking good for Del Monte.
https://www.channel3000.com/.../del-monte-to.../1111842818
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MENDOTA – Del Monte Foods will be announcing on Tuesday plans to close the Mendota Plant by spring of 2020. The 431 acre facility on the East side of Mendota has been a part of the community since 1949. According to multiple sources inside the plant, the company says the permanent layoffs will begin at the end of the current pack season October 21st with a full closure in June of 2020. [WGLC]David Jordan shared a link with the comment:
BNSF will lose a customer because of this. I haven't seen a reason given for the closure, but guessing the company realized other plants could absorb the work.
https://www.wglc.net/del-monte-to-close-mendota-plant/ David Jordan "Mendota, IL
PROCESSING PLANT
The Mendota facility was constructed in 1949 and spans 431 acres. Mendota's fresh pack products include peas, peas & carrots, cream style corn, whole kernel corn, mixed vegetables, corn specialties, and lima beans. Mendota also produces broth and dry beans outside of the fresh packing season. The workforce consists of approximately 31 salaried and 106 regular hourly employees with a peak seasonal headcount of approximately 550 employees."
https://delmontefoods.com/our-company/our-locations
Lukas Irons
There closing the Sleepy Eye Mn plant too Steve Nichols Add the Cambria, WI plant to the list as well. While it hasn’t been served by the WSOR in quite a few years, the siding leading to the plant is still intact.
Things must not be looking good for Del Monte.
https://www.channel3000.com/.../del-monte-to.../1111842818
Bonus
So where was this old elevator?
2 of 4 photos posted by David Wilson with the comment: "En route from Chicago to Galesburg on last trip of articulated Nebraska Zephyrs. January 20,1968."
Chuck Rabideau shared
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Jeremy Cross posted two photos with the comment: "Would anyone happen to have any information on the rail operations that take place at the ADM facility just east of Mendota? It looks like they handle unit trains? Are there any road switchers or locals that service the facility as well? Any info would be much appreciated!"
[Some comments speculated if a incoming unit train with wheat becomes an outgoing unit train of corn or soybeans. Since the unloading for the wheat is a 100' east of the loading shed, If a train goes around the loop in a clockwise direction, they could unload and reload the hoppers with one trip around the loop.]
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I caught some locomotives that does indicate that they go clockwise on the loop.
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And quite a few trucks are waiting to be serviced.
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