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[quote user="blhanel"] <p>[quote user="WIAR"]I believe that would be the ex-MILW yard down there - I watched a lot of CC&P action in that area in my days in town (when I worked at MCI my parking was there across the street from Cargill and QO - made for nice scenery during the walk). That Cargill plant is one of the worst stinkers in CR - second only to the ADM plant on Hwy. 30.[/quote]</p><p>I thought Penford was #2 on the stinker list.</p><p>Here's a couple of shots from today- first, another "drive-by shooting" out my window whilst coming down I-380 of Cargill's little mess:</p><p>[img]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3030/2585685544_49689be4db.jpg[/img]</p><p>Next, the view out my wife's hospital room window- in the distance, it would appear that there's at least one problem area in the Iowa Northern yard north of Quaker...</p><p>[img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2416/2585685594_c796c95d89.jpg[/img]</p><p>Note that CN's north yard in the foreground is still under water.</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>That crane in your second photo from the hospital room has been there since at least '93! When I first got there, the CC&P was using it to dig a holding pond for drainage. I guess it may have needed to be a little bigger.</p>
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