JeffShultz
Stay off the tracks!
One big railroad dependent (or nearly so) industry in the Willamette Valley of Oregon are agricultural supply centers.
These boil down to two basic types - those doing fertilizer and those doing cattle feed.
The fertilizer ones in this area are larger, since they have to have actual storage space.
Wilco Ag Co-Op facility in Stayton, OR (right side of tracks, with tanks and silos):
Another view - I don't think the buildings on the left are part of Wilco:
Another Wilco site, this one outside Silverton, OR:
The cattle feed ones are generally transshippment points and look a lot like team tracks - in these cases the hopper & boxcar loads are going straight into trucks to be taken directly to the customer, who is responsible for storage. I imagine that the loads get "stored" in the cows rather quickly.
Cattle feed transloader in St. Louis, OR:
White's Hauling, Hopmere, OR:
For cattle feed you're talking soybean meal and corn distilates in the covered hoppers, and cottonseed bales in the boxcars.
These boil down to two basic types - those doing fertilizer and those doing cattle feed.
The fertilizer ones in this area are larger, since they have to have actual storage space.
Wilco Ag Co-Op facility in Stayton, OR (right side of tracks, with tanks and silos):

Another view - I don't think the buildings on the left are part of Wilco:

Another Wilco site, this one outside Silverton, OR:

The cattle feed ones are generally transshippment points and look a lot like team tracks - in these cases the hopper & boxcar loads are going straight into trucks to be taken directly to the customer, who is responsible for storage. I imagine that the loads get "stored" in the cows rather quickly.
Cattle feed transloader in St. Louis, OR:

White's Hauling, Hopmere, OR:

For cattle feed you're talking soybean meal and corn distilates in the covered hoppers, and cottonseed bales in the boxcars.