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On July 30, 2018, the grain dryer exploded and burned. There were no injuries. The last street view trip down this road was 2011, so they still have photos of it before the explosion.
This post is how I learned about the explosion.
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Thomas Dyrek posted
The elevator at Cruger as it appeared in 2016 before the explosion and demolition. Thomas Dyrek photo.
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It was the grain dryer that exploded. [
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I tried searching for this post on Facebook to see the other seven photos, but I could not find it.
Video of the explosion taken from
Countryside Barns. I'm still trying to figure out how smoke quickly travelled to the west side so that it came out of the roof of a bin.
I'm surprised that it still looks intact in the satellite image because normally those images are less than five years old.
Some of the photos on Google Maps imply they tore down just the older part of the concrete silos. But this shows that they got rid of all of the concrete silos. They had already installed enough steel bins to make the silos obsolete anyhow.
Since the satellite image, they have added a big ground pile.
Another contemporary view:
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Screenshot
source: TPW 2070 leads MQT 3407, TPW 5009 and TPW 3046 heading east through Cruger, IL with 50 loads for Incobrasa in Gilman this afternoon [May 14, 2021]. |
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