Elevator: (
Satellite)
2007 is evidently the first year that Google dispatched street view technology. (They seem to have done another effort for good coverage in 2023. I have seen quite a few small town views lately that were taken in 2023.) The resolution in the 2007 views is not as good, but the trees were smaller.
Bob Summers
posted two photos with the comment: "Greenwich is our next elevator community as we continue westerly on the former Missouri Pacific line into the northeast part of metropolitan Wichita Kansas. Has been many decades since this old timer was in service. Does not look like the railcar loading spout was modified in order to fill the top loading covered hopper cars that the railroads introduced for grain in the early 1960’s. Few people, if they did not know it was there, would notice it amongst the overgrown vegetation. No idea on the history of this one. Photographed 2019."
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The greenfield cement distribution plant west of town has enough sidings to hold a unit train.
I found what may be a trackmobile that they would use to move the hopper cars so that UP just has to deliver and retrieve the trains. UP doesn't have to help unload them.
This view confirms that they have a trackmobile. The old ties we see in the above street view of the elevator and in this view indicates that UP is spending some money on track maintenance. A fixation on stockholders, PSR and Operating Ratio tends to kill maintenance activity. This plant did not exist in an Oct 2012 view.
They had a red trackmobile in 2019.
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