07-12-2013, 09:53 AM
A couple more fertilizer questions (I don't want to hijack Reinhard's thread, but this does cover rail-served agri stuff, and nobody seems to have been much interested in the thread I started in the industrial forum a few days ago):
Here is a structure in Buttonwillow, CA with a sign that says Simplot Grower Solutions:
Simplot is a little puzzling to me, because they do both potatoes and fertilizer, and I assume this is the fertilizer end. This backs up against a rail siding, but I don't know if this gets rail shipments of anything. But here is a tank car lettered for Simplot in Santa Maria, CA carrying phosphoric acid. It seems to be serving a somewhat similar small facility, though there are tanks here, and the car is clearly being unloaded.
Is the same thing being done at both places? If so, I really, really like this layout-size agri business.
Here is a structure in Buttonwillow, CA with a sign that says Simplot Grower Solutions:
Simplot is a little puzzling to me, because they do both potatoes and fertilizer, and I assume this is the fertilizer end. This backs up against a rail siding, but I don't know if this gets rail shipments of anything. But here is a tank car lettered for Simplot in Santa Maria, CA carrying phosphoric acid. It seems to be serving a somewhat similar small facility, though there are tanks here, and the car is clearly being unloaded.
Is the same thing being done at both places? If so, I really, really like this layout-size agri business.