Robert,
Trend now is for the breweries to have their own collection and
inspection locations. Busch has one on the South side of Moorhead
and just opened a brand new one at Sidney MT. Do not remember
where the others are. Might be one in Great Falls.
In essence they are inspecting their own barley and then shipping it
to the Malt Houses like Froedert in Winona or Rahr in Shakopee.
Busch bought Manitowoc from Rahr. Do not know the current status
of Milwaukee. I've been away from that stuff for a while. Red Wing
is dead now.
Russ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Sorensen" <rksmes@earthlink.net>
To: "BRHS List" <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, 27 September, 2003 17:44
Subject: [BRHSlist] Shipping grain by boxcars
> I worked for a malting company in Minneapolis in 1964/65. Up until that
> time, all grain coming in from
the country elevators was shipped in boxcars. In 1965, we had to lengthen our
track-scale tracks to 55 feet
to accomodate the PS-2 hoppers that were just starting to come in from the
country elevators. Barley came
from North Dakota and stopped at the large yard at Dilworth, Minnesota on the
NP. There, samples were taken
and trucked to the Minneapolis Grain Exchange for the grain buyers to see and
for the company lab to test.
When a car was purchased, it was then sent to Minneapolis for unloading,
cleaning and grading. If a car was
found to be "plugged" with dust or chaff, it could be rejected if opened in
Minneapolis. If it was sent on
to some other user, it could not be rejected. This meant that all of the
malting companies received barley
at an elevator in Minneapolis. The company I worked for also had malting
operations in Milwaukee and
Manitowic, Wisconsin. After the barley was cleaned and graded in Minneapolis,
it was shipped to the other
operations in covered hoppers. All malted barley was shipped out to users in
covered hoppers. I think that
wheat and oats were handled in the same manor. General Mills still has an
elevator in Minneapolis that
handles all of the oats used to make their different oat cereals. In the 60's,
Great Northern's Union Yard
in southeast Minneapolis had hundreds of boxcars of grain. Today it is much
smaller and the University of
Minnesota is expanding into what was railyards of the CGW, GN and CNW.
(Dilworth, MN, is just east of
Fargo, ND, and Moorhead, MN)
> Bob Sorensen
>
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