Quincy, IL: ADM Grain Elevator and Animal Nutrition Facilities

Grain Elevator: (Satellite)

Animal Nutrition: (Satellite)

Alliance Nutrition: (Satellite)

Grain Elevator

Robert Learmont posted
ADM plant in Quincy, IL. 12-10-2018.

Satellite

At first I was surprised that their conveyor belt went so far north. Then I noticed their barge dock is significantly upstream to stay out of the navigation channel of the lock just west of them. Since their location by the tracks required a long conveyor to the river, they might as well build the barge loading far from the lock traffic.

Street View, Jul 2012

What do they store in the big tanks? Is this also an ethanol plant? Or two?

Satellite

Animal Nutrition

Google Maps labels this as their coorporate office with the website admani, which timesout when accessed. Bummer.

Street View, Aug 2019

At least some of this facility around the office at the end of a railroad industrial spur is (or was) their plant because you don't need a scale house for an office.

Satellite

Note the caboose parked at the end of the spur.

Satellite

Actually, it is a center-cab switcher. I was hoping I could see the railroad name on it. There are other industries along this spur.

Street View, Aug 2019

I found this in a Nov 2016 draft: "ADM to Build New Feed Facility to Replace Current Operations." Unfortunately, grainnet doesn't honor their URLs and the link can't be found. And a search for "adm feed facility quincy" had no results. But that would expain why at least one of the buildings is now being used by another company. I wonder where the new plant was built.

Alliance Nutrition

This facility has two barge loading operations.

Satellite

The bins indicate that the southern barge loader is for grain. The following street view indicates that the northern one is for liquids. I included the bridges because it was a new view of those bridges.

Street View, Aug 2019

I still left with what kind of liquid do they load here. And it illustrates how bad rail service is in America since there is no rail siding from the tracks that run right by it. Every thing is trucked. I wonder what product ADM ships from here since their big elevator on the south side of town can load  barges. Perhaps they are shipping feed supplements from their plant to the east rather than grain.

Street View, Jul 2016

The Google Map provided website of mormans.com takes me to admanimalnutrition.

Rail Service

The industrial spur by the coorporate office is a remnant of the Wabash railroad. The trakcs along the river are a remnants of a CB&Q route that went along the east side of the Mississippi River. That CB&Q branch used to go down to join the KCS/Alton across the river from Louisiana, MO. While looking for more ADM facilities, I found Burlington Junction Railway and a small railroad yard north of Broadway Street. So BJRY answers the question of who is the shortline that switches these Wabash and CB&Q remnants that are now industrial spurs. Norfolk Southern shares the former CB&Q route on the west side of the river with BNSF between Hannibal and Quincy, so that is how BJRY is a "handling carrier" for NS as well as BNSF.

See Wabash Depot for an explanation as to how Wabash accessed Quincy.