I had never noticed that there was a grain elevator in Burns Harbor until I saw this photo.
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| Bill Mergl posted Here’s one I took looking at Bethlehem from the stack at the power house ! Shaun Connelly: From nipsco? Must be a older photo the slag piles look small lol. Bill Mergl: Shaun Connelly yes changing lamps on the stack March 2014 Dennis DeBruler shared The grain elevator in the background caught my eye. It is a 7.2 million bushel Cargill facility that loads ships, barges, rail and trucks and unloads rail and trucks. And, with another company at Burns Harbor, it unloads barges. It was built in the early 1980s. Dennis DeBruler: I know they load those long buildings with an augur in the peak of the roof that goes the full length of the building. How do they unload it? Do they drive trucks into the building that are then loaded with a front loader? And then the trucks drive around to the standard truck unloading facility? |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on his share I got the facts from these two videos:
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on his share They sold (or lease) the land along the river to companies that use barges and built a grain processing plant in the interior. 1938 Aerial Photo Brett Ellis: The old elevator in Chicago on Torrance ave was at one time the largest bushel capacity elevator in the USA. The dock and boats weren't the problem and reason it was replaced. It was very old and originally the CNW elevator. It and continental grain in Chicago were also delivery points for the Chicago board of trade. A family friend was general manager of it for many years. We shipped millions of bushels there over the years. The elevator in burns harbor is now a delivery point for cbot also. The traffic in salties is far less than it was many years ago. Barge and rail as well as some boat are still Shipped fromthisfacility. . There is also corn sent to the processing plant owned by Cargill in Hammond. The elevator in Chicago would have sometimes over a 100 semis waiting in line during harvest. I still remember as a kid also seeing the boxcars being dumped. I would love to come across more pictures of the Chicago facility. FYI, the majority of barges of bulk materials unloaded at burns harbor are fertilizer, salt and steel related products with most done by Frick services or Lakes and Rivers next to Cargill |
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| Kebvin Priest commented on Dennis' share |
Since the Bailly Power Plant from which Bill took the photo was retired in 2018, I grabbed a satellite image while it is still available.
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