F & F Feeds: (Satellite)
Cargill Pet Products: (Satellite) Cargill also has a distribution center nearby
MFA/AgChoice/Irsik & Doll Feed Services: (Satellite)
Roundhouse: (Satellite)
Depot, labeled: (Satellite)
Depot, actual: (Satellite, topo map and aerial photo agree that it was a block further east.)
Freight House: (Satellite)
Bob Summers posted two photos with the comment: "Bunge Corp elevator and soybean processing plant in Emporia Kansas."
Richard Risley My father-in-law Robert Wise worked at this facility from 1951 until he retired in 1991. He was a grain buyer, salesman & traffic manager. He began working for John Vanier's - Kansas Soya Products. During a span of a few years - ADM purchased Vanier's operations but couldn't keep this operation. It was sold to Ross Industries which in turn was sold to Cargill. Cargill couldn't keep it & sold it to Bunge Corp. ADM & Cargill were kept from owning it due to Government trade restrictions. My FIL had changed employers 5 times & never moved his desk. The North concrete annex was added in the very early 1960s. I remember watching the slip forms moving upward as the tanks were poured.
Bob Summers posted two photos with the comment: "Elevator and Feedmill in Emporia Kansas - in the flinthills, known for excellent pasture for cattle."
Bob Summers posted two photos with the comment: "Not a surprise that Cargill is also serving the Flint Hills cattlemen with this feedmill in Emporia Kansas. Square concrete and steel elevators are common with feedmills in our region."
Matt Letts The old Safeway dog food plant, looks like they have added on to it since I lived there.
Bob Summers posted two photos with the comment: "MFA acquired the former Irsik & Doll Feed Services elevator and feedmill in Emporia Kansas some years back. This is in the heart of ranch land where cattle are raised on grassland summer pastures before being shipped to the large feedlots to be fattened before slaughter. Nevertheless feed supplements are crucial and provided from facilities like this."
Richard Risley My father-in-law Robert Wise worked at this facility from 1951 until he retired in 1991. He was a grain buyer, salesman & traffic manager. He began working for John Vanier's - Kansas Soya Products. During a span of a few years - ADM purchased Vanier's operations but couldn't keep this operation. It was sold to Ross Industries which in turn was sold to Cargill. Cargill couldn't keep it & sold it to Bunge Corp. ADM & Cargill were kept from owning it due to Government trade restrictions. My FIL had changed employers 5 times & never moved his desk. The North concrete annex was added in the very early 1960s. I remember watching the slip forms moving upward as the tanks were poured.
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Bob Summers posted two photos with the comment: "Elevator and Feedmill in Emporia Kansas - in the flinthills, known for excellent pasture for cattle."
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| 1 David Budka "Bluestem Feed Mills. Pulp Red Feeds?" Whatever, I love it! Bob Summers Do not know the history but made out a barely legible sign on the elevator as "Bluestem Feeds" but following up on your post googled "Pulp Red Feeds" and found "F & F Feeds" David Budka I was looking at another set of pictures, and did a little research. I think they are advertising the Ful-O-Pep brand of feeds. It was a Quaker Oats brand. They recently painted over the Scolar and West-Central Grain Company signs on the old workhouse along I-480 in Omaha, Nebraska. I love grain elevator advertising! Dennis DeBruler Bluestem still has a retail store: https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4... Google Maps labels this F & F Feeds: https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4... |
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Bob Summers posted two photos with the comment: "Not a surprise that Cargill is also serving the Flint Hills cattlemen with this feedmill in Emporia Kansas. Square concrete and steel elevators are common with feedmills in our region."
Matt Letts The old Safeway dog food plant, looks like they have added on to it since I lived there.
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| Kathy Black posted Emporia KS - Spring 2019 Bob Summers  Formerly Irsik & Doll Feed Services based in Cimarron Kansas |
Roundhouse
Raymond Storey posted three photos with the comment: "EMPORIA KS."
Steve Macey: What side of town was this on ?
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Steve's comment The east side of the railyard on the south side of town, https://maps.app.goo.gl/Fg1nN6Qn77byFHji8. |
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| Raymond Storey posted KANSAS..LOCATION WAS NOT PROVIDED |
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| Larry Reser commented on Raymond's post 1965 |
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| Larry Reser commented on his comment Turntable 1982, the roundhouse looking in very sad condition. |
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| Robert Marin posted This is a photo my big brother took from the cab of a locomotive of the round house and turntable in Emporia, KS. sometime in the early 50s. You can see a gas electric motor car in the roundhouse. |
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| Robert Marin posted Inside the Emporia, Kansas roundhouse in the early 1950s. Photo by my brother Louis. Charles Smith: Last time I walked thru this roundhouse on a late Sunday evening..it was full of 2-10-2's ..early 1950's. Scott Krause: WOW! the one that sits at Newton! Amazing |
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| Trenton Fay posted March 29, 1981 photo from Lance Garrels, Emporia, KS Round House |
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| Marty Bernard posted 2. A Santa Fe Yard in March 1972 in Emporia, KS. Roger Puta photo Matt Letts: This area is now part of the city dump. Marty Bernard shared |
Depot
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| Robert Marin posted This is the Emporia, Kansas depot in the Early 50s before it was remodeled and a number of windows were bricked in. One of the Santa Fe's new 100 class FTs is passing by. The depot was a landmark in Emporia until it was destroyed by fire on Aug. 9, 1999. The stone building in the center was the original station and the Old English portions were added later. Photo by my brother Louis Marin jr. |
Stephen Hopkins posted two photos with the comment: "Emporia KS."
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| 1 [Note that the standpipes from the steam era are still standing.] |
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| Jim Arvites posted View of an eastbound Santa Fe Railway passenger train making a station stop at Emporia, Kansas in 1962. (Henry Balinski Photo, LSRHA Collection) Steve Haynes: That would be No. 4, the eastbound Southern District mail and express train. Looks like the engineer came in pretty hot, lots of brake-shoe smoke. His relief would be waiting on the bench at the east end of train shed. |
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| Bob Helling posted I miss those days. Emporia was about an hour and a half drive from my home in Salina. I knew I wouldn't get skunked. On trips, I checked out the crew change points over the ATSF system on my route. Little known spots like Seligman, Marceline, Ft. Madison. Grips on the platform was a good sign. An eastbound 901 changes crews at Emporia on September 5, 1981. The size of grips tell of a short fast run. Bob Helling Photo. Chris Faulk: Why did it take so long to get rid of that crew change? Many of the shorter crew changes were eliminated in the early 70s. |
I didn't need a topo map to find the roundhouse since we can still see the foundation, but I did need it to find the depot. The freight house is the rectangle just west of West Street, and the depo is the rectangle just west of Neosho Street.
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| 1957/58 Emporia Quad @ 24,000 |
Note that the fright house has the typical second story office building on the street side.
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| Mar 30, 1956 @ 17,000; AR1VKI000020145 |
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