Old1: (Satellite)
Old2: (Satellite)
Oldish: (Satellite)
EGT: (Satellite) |
| Street View, Sep 2022 |
"Oldish" in the foreground and "Old1" in the background.
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| Jan Normandale posted Chester MT: 2013 08 Pentax 67, 55mm, 120 Fuji Acros, ISO 100 tripod + cable release |
Old2:
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| Street View, Sep 2022 |
The above street view is very incompatible with the Google Maps image.
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| Satellite |
So I fired up Google Earth to check it out. The above image is dated Apr 2016. By May 2021, they had rebuilt all of their bins and greatly expanded their "long building."
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| Google Earth, May 2021 |
The elevator has many small bins because Stricks Ag handles specialized crops such as peas and lentils. That explains why there are just seven hoppers at the elevator in the above image. The other recent images shows that the elevator does have a lot of carload rail traffic.
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| Google Earth, Aug 2023 |
I wonder if it is also still a feed mill.
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| Street View, Jun 2009 |
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| Andrew Tuttle posted Chester, Mt Keith Higgins: EGT loves ground piles. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Andrew's post Obviously they can ship by rail because they have the loop track for unit trains and a rather long fall protector. This is the former Great Northern route. |
The elevator is capable of loading a 110-car unit train in under ten hours. Since Longview, which has a unloading capacity of 120,000 bu/hr can unload a 110-car unit train in under five hours, the leg capacity of this elevator must be about 60,000 bu/hr. The storage capacity is 800,000 bushels.[prnewswire and egtgrain] I assume that 800k figure doesn't count the capacity of the ground piles because that figure is rather small for a commercial elevator.
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Andrew's post Chester is one of the EGT elevators that feeds grain to their export elevator in Longview, WA. When I checked out their export terminal with satellite images, it appears that they use long inclined conveyors instead of legs to handle the grain. It can unload 120,000 bushels of grain per hour. It had its grand opening in 2012. |
I fired up Google Earth to look for past images to see how the contents of the ground piles changed. But there were not very many and all of the images did not have any piles. Assuming that Andrew's photo is timely, the piles would be at their maximum for this year because harvest has just ended. The street view did catch a pile. I'm surprised how big it is because August is getting close to a new harvest season.
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| Street View, Aug 2019 |
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