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| Craig Hensley Photography posted A single UP ET44AH #2628 shoves a loaded coal train to be unloaded for the power plant at the ADM facility in Columbus, NE. Columbus, NE - September 2025 Ned Shaneberger: Gotta supply a lot of heat to make all that corn starch! [I suspect that they need that heat in the form of steam. But I didn't realize that they needed so much stam that they consume unit trains of coal. ] |
Given all of those tank cars, one of the outputs must be corn syrup.
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| Street View, May 2024 |
Obviously, the hopper trailer above carries corn. I wonder what these other two trailers carry.
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| Street View, May 2024 |
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| Todd Koch, Oct 2016 |
It is a green-field plant built between two railroads: UP+BNSF/CB&Q.
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| 1958/59 Columbus Quad @ 24,000 |
Of course, the plant would have a loop of track to unload unit grain trains, so unloading unit coal trains would be no big deal. This is the first modern plant that I remember that is big enough to have two industrial spurs from both railroads. Note that the BNSF route (the one on the south side) now terminates at this plant.
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| Satellite |
When I researched the David City depot just a few days ago, I wondered what plant in Columbus would cause BNSF to retain the CB&Q branch to Columbus. Now I know.
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| 1902 via Dennis DeBruler |
I checked, and the ADM plants in Clinton and Decatur also have the grainPlant plus powerPlant labels. And I added the powerPlant label to the Ingredion plant near Chicago because I saw a tall building with three smokestacks.
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