Lebanon, PA: Reading and Pennsy Depots and Big Feed Mill

Reading: (Satellite)

Pennsy: (Satellite)

Feed Mill: (Satellite)

Street View, Nov 2021

John Cowgill: DC Railroad Examiner posted
Old  Train  Station,  Lebanon,  Pennsylvania.
Jim Kelling: Reading Company station

I wasn't able to determine which rectangle along the Reading was the depot, so...

1955/56 Lebanon Quad @ 24,000

...I got an aerial photo. Because of the dormers and tower, it was easy to find. The track and field of the middle school makes it easy to correlation this old aerial with today's satellite images. It was in the southeast quadrant of 8th Street and the tracks.

Apr 24, 1951 @ 24,000; AR1OY0000020080

In fact, it still exists.

Dennis DeBruler commented on John's post
The station is extant, https://maps.app.goo.gl/zYoBuv4bK5XJwDq88.

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Pennsy Depot

 

Street View, Nov 2020

Gardy Lawrence posted two images with the comment: "Here are two old postcard photos of the Cornwall & Lebanon Station in Lebanon, PA. The black & white shows the original station and the color shows the station after the addition was built on the south side. Later it became a Pennsylvania RR facility. It is still standing and beautifully restored housing the Strickler Insurance Agency."

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Triple M Farms Feed Mill

Eastern Rails Photography posted
On the second day of CSX reroutes over NS due to tunnel work near Baltimore, CSX AC44CW 539 leads the Monon "heritage" unit and another GE past Triple M Farms feed mill in Lebanon, PA with train M371.  To bypass Baltimore, the trains run from Philly to Harrisburg, then down the Lurgan Branch and eventually back on CSX rails to reach Cumberland, MD. 2/2/25
[I presume it is the construction of the Frederick Douglas Tunnel that cause the detour routing.]

Street View, Nov 2022

Street View, Nov 2021

I wondered if those big bins were for feed or for shipping grain to market. It looks like they ship enough feed that they don't ship grain to market.

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Instead of a lot of small bins, they have a lot of big bins. That is because they sell supplements to farmers that mix their own feed. This page lists the supplements they offer. Some I expected like corn distillers. Others I did not expect like roasted soybeans and blood meal.

Randall Horning, Dec 2018

I gather from their history that this photo is from the 1980s. Note the wood grain elevator in the left background.

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