This photo caught my eye because it shows the old bridge before the new one obstructed its view. But then I noticed that the grain elevator supported some sort of processing plant.
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| Tom Brown posted, cropped A rare visit by American Queen and American Duchess at Red Wing. |
I saved this satellite excerpt because it shows that they use barges as well as rail for transport. I think they use the hopper unloader to transload to barges as well as to supply the plant. Note the red industrial locomotive parked southwest of the unloading building. I wonder if it is a Whitcomb locomotive.
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| Satellite |
This grain processing plant looked different than the ones I normally see. So I dug deeper. I determined that this plant processes flax and canola. [ADM (flax is a source of omega-3 fatty acids)] That would explain the small cut of hopper cars. Unlike corn and soybeans, the volume of those crops probably does not justify unit trains.
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| Street View |
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| Ted Peterson, Jul 2019 |
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