Another nice video by Mark's Station of CSX switching the Cargill Salt Plant in St. Clair, MI. The lead into the plant is as sharp of a curve as I have even seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=469pvb9wSb4
CSX Switching Cargill Salt in St. Clair PH&D Branch
CSX Switching Cargill Salt in St. Clair PH&D Branch
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Re: CSX Switching Cargill Salt in St. Clair PH&D Branch
Industries like these are why geeps are used until they can’t/are rebuilt. That is TIGHT.
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Re: CSX Switching Cargill Salt in St. Clair PH&D Branch
Doe we have a symbol for the Marysville Job that works the PH&D?
Do we know what is shipped in those boxcars?
Do we know what is shipped in those boxcars?
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Re: CSX Switching Cargill Salt in St. Clair PH&D Branch
I've read that the PH&D local is L307. Before the symbol changes the local was D713.
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Re: CSX Switching Cargill Salt in St. Clair PH&D Branch
I have read several newspaper and magazine articles that say Cargill manufacturers about 70 tons a day of Kosher salt at this plant.
That does not seem to be enough quantity to justify bulk shipments in box cars but perhaps it is, or maybe there is something else they produce or receive like road salt from another plant and use St. Clair as a distribution center.
That does not seem to be enough quantity to justify bulk shipments in box cars but perhaps it is, or maybe there is something else they produce or receive like road salt from another plant and use St. Clair as a distribution center.
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