Water Tower: (Satellite)
Transloading: (Satellite)
Even though they have rail service, they ship some grain by truck because we can see the dust cloud from a truck being loaded.
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| Street View, Oct 2021 |
The Andersons started in Maumee, OH. I knew they had expanded in the Midwest. I was not aware that they are this far west.
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| Conor Griffin posted Grand Trunk Western 4517, an EMD GP9 built in 1957 sits idle on a Saturday afternoon. The almost 70 year old locomotive, built to run in Canada, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio, has resided in Bliss, ID for the last 15 or more years. And although it's not working today, it is the workhorse for The Andersons grain facility that towers over it. It's always fun to check the local elevator when traveling, you never know what they might have hanging around for power. Hi-Rez: https://flic.kr/p/2r13XNz Allen Bishop: Anderson was one of the first and only to own their own rolling stock. Charles Geletzke Jr.: That was the last high-short-hood on the GTW; and I had the honor of running it on its last day. When we finished, I shut it down, and then set it up for tow. |
They use ground piles.
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| Satellite |
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| Street View, May 2024 |
I discovered the water tower because it was Google Maps "signature" photo for the town.
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| Joe Idaho, Aug 2019 |
While looking for the grain elevator, I found a transloading operation. Those are short hopper cars so they are probably loading sand or cement. Given that the truck trailer is a pneumatic trailer, I'm guessing that he is hauling cement. So UP is serving at least two industries in this town. Note the water tower in the left background of this view.
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| Street View, Aug 2012 |
The transloading operation can handle a fairly long cut of hopper cars.
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| Satellite |
The UP branch to the south is now just a remnant that serves the grain elevator because it now ends here and because I saw a cut of hopper cars parked on what was the mainline.
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| 1950/50 Bliss Quad @ 24,000 |
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