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Re: Huron and Eastern Customer List

Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:52 pm
by NS3322
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:
hesrcustomers1.JPG
hesrcustomers2.JPG

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?

Re: Huron and Eastern Customer List

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:02 am
by AARR
NS3322 wrote:
Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:52 pm
Who serves Michigan Sugar in Bay City?
Huron Eastern

Re: Huron and Eastern Customer List

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 3:34 pm
by NS3322
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.

Re: Huron and Eastern Customer List

Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 2:34 pm
by Outflow
Outflow wrote:
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

Re: Huron and Eastern Customer List

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 9:03 pm
by redside20
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

Re: Huron and Eastern Customer List

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 6:41 am
by DaveO
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.

Re: Huron and Eastern Customer List

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 7:34 pm
by Outflow
Local county looking to expand rail use

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

Re: Huron and Eastern Customer List

Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 7:53 am
by R Bedell
Very vague article. Of the interested, three of them already have rail service. Gagetown's rail service ended when GTW pulled up the rails.

Re: Huron and Eastern Customer List

Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 10:26 pm
by Outflow
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.

Re: Huron and Eastern Customer List

Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 10:59 pm
by penn central
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.

Re: Huron and Eastern Customer List

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2022 7:29 pm
by AARR
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

Re: Huron and Eastern Customer List

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2022 7:34 pm
by AARR
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

Re: Huron and Eastern Customer List

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2022 7:36 pm
by AARR
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

Re: Huron and Eastern Customer List

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2022 9:37 pm
by NS3322
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.
tankcaro.JPG
There is also a whole line of tank cars visible in the April 2020 imagery.
tankcaro1.JPG

Re: Huron and Eastern Customer List

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 6:12 am
by R Bedell
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.

Re: Huron and Eastern Customer List

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 6:55 am
by AARR
Thank you for confirming POET receives tank cars NS3322 and R Bedell

Re: Huron and Eastern Customer List

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 7:32 pm
by 1TrackMind

Re: Huron and Eastern Customer List

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:01 pm
by Outflow
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

Re: Huron and Eastern Customer List

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2022 6:37 am
by AARR
Thank you, I will add it to Wiki.
Outflow wrote:
Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:01 pm
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

Re: Huron and Eastern Customer List

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2022 6:48 am
by AARR
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