McCain Plover

sign by the mainline and Highway 54 and 130th? street. McCains is located at the GOLDEN SANDS siding. See the little white sign hiding behind the power pole. In the WC days and earlier, this tall switch stand was even painted Gold color. NOW it's standard black again. The target was still the usual red and green.

here is a repeat of some notes made on wc2scale@yahoogroups.com

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As usual, I spent time replying to this instead of doing chores around the house. . . . . I drive by these industrial plants most every week. But some of my pictures are old. And some of my back-up copies on CD don't read anymore afer 5 years. But I found just enough for this page. Could always wish for more quality on some, but that's as good as the camera was back then. The 70-foot frozen food cars are for McCain Foods, although excess cars for them are sometimes stored in the passing siding near Basic American. Tank cars of (corn?) oil arrive. Red hopper farm trucks, big dump trucks, and semi-trailers of potatoes arrive. Refrigerated semi-trailers and rail cars leave. I think McCain's is still making fast food frozen French Fries. In the old days, this was an Ore-Ida potato plant.

There is an interesting siding on the west side of the Americold warehouse where the big rail cars and trucks share the dock space. ?I think sometimes many trailers have to be pulled if the rail cars are moved. There's room for about a half dozen of these big cars here.

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One more look at the road to the main plant, in 2003. Three different sets of warning lights to aim to three street intersections.

. . . . and in the late 1970's, the railroad was the Green Bay and Western
and this is the same crossing as in the above picture.
And Highway 54 was just a two-lane road.
And I don't remember if Ore-Ida was even built yet.

This is flat glacial sand country good for growing potatoes. At this time, I don't have a better picture of the trucks with flared side hoppers with a center unloading conveyor. Some potatoes are stored in farm warehouses and some go directly to the potato plants.

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As usual, I have driven by on the highway side of the plant many times, but never stopped for many pictures. To keep the history correct, if someone knows the facts better than me, do please write to me.

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