Huron and Eastern Customer List

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GTWwatcher wrote:
Mon Jul 26, 2021 3:10 pm
NS3322 wrote:
Sat May 01, 2021 9:43 pm
It's been about two years so I have decided to audit the list again. Plus, I am also creating an interactive Google Map of the HESR with all of the customers.

Here's what I have:
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Possibly inactive customers I have questions about:
Cooperative Elevator Fertilizer - Bad Axe
Tri-State Forest Products - Buena Vista
Cooperative Elevator - Deckerville
Farmers Co-Op Grain - Elkton
ADM Edible Bean - Fairgrove
Midwestern BioAg - Kinde
Central Warehouse - Saginaw
M.A.C. Sand Sales - Vassar
Central Warehouse has been closed for years. Tri State Forest Products still gets service, although I'm not sure how often.
Who serves Michigan Sugar in Bay City?

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NS3322 wrote:
Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:52 pm
Who serves Michigan Sugar in Bay City?
Huron Eastern
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AARR wrote:
Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:02 am
NS3322 wrote:
Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:52 pm
Who serves Michigan Sugar in Bay City?
Huron Eastern
What I thought. For some reason it was removed from the Wiki.

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Sun May 02, 2021 12:56 am
I live in bad axe near tracks and can confirm the co op does get infrequent rail service. I pass it everyday on my way to work and in the past year I would say there may have been about ten times I have seen hoppers,usually 1 or 2, at the plant.

First car I've seen in several months at the bad axe co-op location
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Michigan Sugar investing to build a desugarization plant at its Bay City plant and plans to invest it all its other MIchigan operations too.

https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw-bay- ... 6A7H57EAzc
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Interesting that Michigan Sugar has coop owners in Ontario.
I guess I never considered that a coop would cross the international border.
Also didn't know that desugarization is a word.

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Local county looking to expand rail use

http://thumbnet.net/wire/headlines/1286 ... 233212.php

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Very vague article. Of the interested, three of them already have rail service. Gagetown's rail service ended when GTW pulled up the rails.

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On a similar note the co-op elevator received a grant that will allow them to upgrade the bean processing facility in pigeon, tripling production capabilities. That should mean more boxcar traffic in and out of there.

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DaveO wrote:
Tue Sep 28, 2021 6:41 am
Interesting that Michigan Sugar has coop owners in Ontario.
I guess I never considered that a coop would cross the international border.
Also didn't know that desugarization is a word.
Yep a trucking company out of Canada called Grace has multi axle semi trailers that truck the beets to the Croswell location all through the beet campaign it is a booming affair at Croswell im in there several times a year. And FWIW Michigan Sugar purchased the old Aunt Jane Pickle plant at Croswell and it is a giant sugar warehouse now where pallets of sugar are stored.

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I would like to edit the Wiki but would appreciate confirmation first. Is there also a Cooperative Elevator Feed Mill that receives covered hoppers at this site? Please confirm.
Cooperative Elevator Elkton Terminal Elkton Grain Elevator & Fertilizer Plant Covered Hoppers/Boxcars/Tank Cars
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I would like to edit the Wiki but would appreciate confirmation first. Does the below customer receive tank cars? I do not see any tank car loading/unloading equipment here.
POET Biorefining Caro Ethanol Plant Covered Hoppers/Tank Cars
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I would like to edit Wiki but would appreciate confirmation first. Does the below customer also ship in boxcars?
Star of the West Milling Gera Grain & Bean Elevator Covered Hoppers
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AARR wrote:
Sun Jul 24, 2022 7:34 pm
I would like to edit the Wiki but would appreciate confirmation first. Does the below customer receive tank cars? I do not see any tank car loading/unloading equipment here.
POET Biorefining Caro Ethanol Plant Covered Hoppers/Tank Cars
There is loading/unloading equipment for tank cars. Tank cars are seen in this September 2014 imagery of Poet.
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There is also a whole line of tank cars visible in the April 2020 imagery.
tankcaro1.JPG

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Does the below customer receive tank cars? I do not see any tank car loading/unloading equipment here.
POET Biorefining Caro Ethanol Plant Covered Hoppers/Tank Cars
Yes, they do. See them myself, all the time.

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Thank you for confirming POET receives tank cars NS3322 and R Bedell
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AARR wrote:
Sun Jul 24, 2022 7:29 pm
I would like to edit the Wiki but would appreciate confirmation first. Is there also a Cooperative Elevator Feed Mill that receives covered hoppers at this site? Please confirm.
Cooperative Elevator Elkton Terminal Elkton Grain Elevator & Fertilizer Plant Covered Hoppers/Boxcars/Tank Cars
Yes I have seen all there at times this year

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Thank you, I will add it to Wiki.
Outflow wrote:
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AARR wrote:
Sun Jul 24, 2022 7:29 pm
I would like to edit the Wiki but would appreciate confirmation first. Is there also a Cooperative Elevator Feed Mill that receives covered hoppers at this site? Please confirm.
Cooperative Elevator Elkton Terminal Elkton Grain Elevator & Fertilizer Plant Covered Hoppers/Boxcars/Tank Cars
Yes I have seen all there at times this year
PatC created a monster, 'cause nobody wants to see Don Simon no more they want AARR I'm chopped liver, well if you want AARR this is what I'll give ya, bad humor mixed with irrelevant info that'll make you roll your eyes quicker than a ~Z~ banhammer...

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Can someone confirm if the Labudde in Akron is active? The location in Richville is active but I am not sure about the one in Akron.
LaBudde Group Akron Vegetable Products Covered Hoppers
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