Note the wood grain elevator on the right. It is next to the river. They then grew the elevator with some jump-form silos. Then they built a conveyor across the road and added some slip-form silos. On the right is the spout that loads barges. On the far right is Lock & Dam #20 in the distant background.
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| Street View, Aug 2019 |
They kept expanding with a bunch of silos, and then they went to bins. The also added a long building.
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| Satellite |
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| usracoop_meyer |
That is Dam #20 in the foreground.
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| usracoop_banner |
The trucks line up to unload even in the Summer.
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| Street View, Jun 2024 |
I accessed a topo map to confirm that this elevator never had rail service. It has always been trucks to barges. I concluded that the orange crosshatched lines mark levees. I took another look at the view at the top of these notes. The green grass on the right is on a levee. The older elevators are built on a landfill, but the new silos and bins are in a floodplain.
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| David Webster posted via Dennis DeBruler |
Bonus
The capacity of steel bins continues to grow. This was on the homepage of the CO-OP that owns the Meyer elevator.
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| ursacoop "Big progress at Wayland, MO! We’re excited to share a 'cemental' milestone at the site today, the cement wall pour for our new 132' Brock grain bin is underway! This impressive bin will hold 1.3 million bushels of grain and marks a huge step forward in storage capacity and operational efficiency for us." |
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