Brett Ellis posted four photos with the comment:
This was Remington Coop in Remington Indiana. It became Co Alliance. Remington had a second elevator in Goodland In. that has been torn down. This elevator was at one time a 100 car shipper that's been closed. Reason given was too expensive to bring up to safety standards. There was also a large steel tank that's been removed.
Bob Summers Likely another reason for the closure is back in the day concrete elevators were engineered for filling and emptying te fins only a few times a year and the structural forces encountered with frequent repeated filling and emptying the bins as would be required if frequently loading 100 car trains causes structural problems over time.
Brett Ellis Bob Summers they said in a release a lot was due to dust control etc but what you're saying definitely makes sense.
Bob Summers Dust control systems to meet EPA & OSHA in closed elevators these days are very expensive, so no doubt another factor in their decision not to put more money into this facility.
Rich Reed I can understand OSHA. My grandpa who worked in the Davidson elevator in Hutch had to have his nostrils cleaned out from the dust. Also explosion issues. Why would EPA be an issue. Or is it like the Hutch Hospital being 6 blocks from the ADM north elevator in Hutch.
Bob Summers Rich Reed EPA is concerned with emissions outside the facility that affect our air quality. OSHA is concerned with health and safety of personnel in the facility
Dennis DeBruler Rich Reed What is the issue with the hospital being a little west of ADM?
https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4...
Rich Reed Dennis DeBruler a guy told me the elevator had to have a dust system to avoid exhausting dust over the hospital and causing a ruckus.
Bob Summers Rich Reed EPA regulations applying to grain handling facilities became a major factor in the mid - late '70's and have been made more stringent several times over the years. Collinwood might have gone a litle above the regulations as a PR move because of the hospital, but with our prevaling winds not being out of the east in this area, the proximity of the hospital should not have been an issue.
Dennis DeBruler I see that the elevator has just a couple of short sidings. I know that the Toledo, Peoria & Western shortline is very grain elevator friendly. But maybe they now have enough business that they don't want their mainline tied up with a unit train being loaded. The Prairie Central Coop in Illinois built a new elevator with a balloon track to load unit trains on their own property.
https://towns-and-nature.blogspot.com/.../chenoa-il...
Dennis DeBruler A fourth strike against this elevator might be that many of the farmers in this area have switched to growing seed corn. The seed companies have their own storage facilities because the corn is air dried on the cob because the heat of a regular grain dryer would kill the germ in the kernel.
https://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/.../hybrid-corn...
Brett Ellis Dennis DeBruler that first hit them years ago and definitely impacted business.
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Brett's post A satellite image still shows the steel bin. Can the steel be unbolted and used at another elevator? I've noticed that, as of 2020, the Google Image copyright no longer seems to be accurate. https://www.google.com/.../@40.7608641,-87.../data=!3m1!1e3 |
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