Huron & Eastern Railroad

[Railnut]

Customers of the HESR's thumb lines..by line:

Croswell-Bad Axe:

Michigan Sugar Company..all traffic ic outbound (molassas & beet pulp)
MAC Inbound fertilizer-outbound grain

Deckerville:

CO-OP Elevator-outbound grain
Lapeer Grain Company of Deckerville-??
Michigan Sugar Beet piling/loading grounds (for Bay City plant only)-outbound sugar beets
Deckerville Redi-mix(?)-Inbound aggregate

Ubly:

Agri-Sales Inc-Inbound fertilizer(?) outbound grain
Thumb Plastics-Inbound pellets

Bad Axe

Fertilizer dealer-Inbound fertilizer
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Palms-Ruth

Ruth

Ruth Farmers Elevator-inbound fertilizer, outbound grain
Michigan Sugar Company-Outbound beets (Still in use?)
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Bad Axe-Kinde

Kinde

Farmers CO-OP Elevator-inbound fertilizer(?) outbound grain
Terra- Inbound fertilizer
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Bad Axe-Reese

Elkton:

Cooperative Elevator Company-Inbound fertilizer, outbound grain
Tower Automotive- Outbound parts & scrap?
Cooperative Elevator-??
Agri-Sales- dunno if they ship by rail
Terra-Inbound fertilizer

Pigeon:

CO-OP Elevator CO-Outbound grain (on old GTW)
CO-OP elevator Bean plant-Outbound beans
Active Feeds-Inbound feed(?)
Wallace Stone-Outbound ballast

Sebewang:

Michigan Sugar Co-Outbound Molassas & Beet pulp.
Baysode Best Beans-Outbound beans?
Factory?

Unionville:

Gran Elevator-Outbound Grain

Akron:

Co-op Elevator-Outbound Grain
Another Elevator

Fairgrove:

Agri-sales-Outbound Grain

Kinter:

UAP-Inbound Fertilizer, outbound grain

Guilford

ADM(?)-Outbound grain
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Reese-Millington

Star of the West-Outbound Grain

Richville:
Star of the West(?)-Outbound fertilizer
Dog food plant (not yet open)

Vassar:

Star of the West (not shipping)

Millington:

Millington Elevator & Supply-Outbound Grain
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Saginaw-Brown City

Buena Vista TWP

Delphi-??

Gera:

Star of the West-Outbound grain

Marlette:

MAC-Outbound Grain

Brown City:

MAC-Inbound fetilizer, outbound grain.
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Caro-Vassar

Colling:
Vitaplus-outbound grain

Caro:

Michigan Sugar Company-Outbound Molassas and beet pulp
Poet Biorefining-Inbound corn, outbound ethanol

Dave C

[AARR]

Croswell-Bad Axe:
UAP Elevator (name has change..cant recall the name of the new owners) Inbound fertilizer-outbound grain

Current operator is Michigan Agricultural Commodities (MAC)

Deckerville:
CO-OP Elevator-outbound grain

They also get fertilizer in across the street from the grain bins

Peatville:
Michigan Peat Company-Outbound bagged soil(?)

It's my understanding this business stopped rail service years ago

Kinde

Terra has a fertilizer dealer a mile south of town and may still receive rail service and there's another small elevator in Kinde that may still ships by rail (bagged beans perhaps?).

Elkton
Tower Automotive- Outbound parts & scrap?
there are 2 other grain elevators in Elkton..but cant find anything on them
There is also a place on Farver Rd, west of Elkton, with a Spur.

I've heard Tower still ships but less than in the past. Both elevators are operated by Cooperative Elevator but one is either a fertilizer plant or grain milling plant for flour. I think the place on Farver Rd is another Terra Fertilizer dealer.

Pigeon

Active Feeds still gets a car a week or so from what I've read. BTW - Cooperative has two operations here. One is on the west side of the tracks and is their bean plant where they load bagged beans into box cars. The other is on the east side and is their huge elevator that loads 65-90 car unti trains.

Sebewaing

There's a Michigan Sugar Co-op that ships out beet-pulp and molasses and another Cooperative Elevator that receives fertilizer and ships out grain.

[astrovanman1989]

Where does the HESR tie down in the thumb when they are not moving around?

today i saw the corp unit in reese and 2 hesr ra units at towerline rd

[GreatLakesRailfan]

I don't see any Bad Axe customers on Dave's list...

There's a fertilizer dealer out by the airport that had tank cars a couple times two summers back.


I'm also surprised to see Peatville listed as a customer. When I was up that way working for the road commission a couple summers ago, there was no activity on the line by the peat place. Never saw a single car sitting around in all the times I was in that neighborhood.

[AARR]

I don't see any Bad Axe customers on Dave's list...

There's a fertilizer dealer out by the airport that had tank cars a couple times two summers back.

Forgot about that, too. Cooperative Elevator operates a fertilizer place there. No grain though, just inbound fertilizer. One of those smaller places too, probably only around a dozen cars or so a year.

[Railnut]

Updated! Keeps the updates coming!
Dave C

[JANGAJONGA]

i heard richville has a new customer. i heard it over on the michigan railroads board. does anyone have anymore info? it was looking as if they were going to recieve covered hoppers.

[AARR]

i heard richville has a new customer. i heard it over on the michigan railroads board. does anyone have anymore info? it was looking as if they were going to recieve covered hoppers.

They wrote it was a warehouse for dog food so it'll probably arrive in bags in box cars.

[RailsandTrucks]

Drove past that new spur yesterday while on my way to a friends house in marlette, from my observation it looks as though they are in operation now as they looked to have about 3 covered hoppers on thier spur and some front end loading device sitting next to the tracks-possibly for spotting the cars?

Also looked like there was a good chunk of covered hoppers on this line near the richville elevator-at least from what I could tell from m-46

Hope this helps,

[jwilliam33]

What about the stone quarry south of Bayport? It's been 10 years since I've been up there but I thought there was still a spur.

[AARR]

What about the stone quarry south of Bayport? It's been 10 years since I've been up there but I thought there was still a spur.

That's Wallace Stone that RailNut mentioned. At one time they shipped stone to the Redi-Mix plant in Deckerville in the sugar beet cars that were not in use because sugar beet harvest was over until late fall. I don't know if this movement is still active.

[Paul W]

Thanks KrazyKarl, I took the long way home yesterday and seen the cars in the siding there in Richville nice to see the old Weber lumber building getting used agian.