Killing THREE Birds With One Stone: Questions about the world of Corn Syrup in railroading.

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I won’t waste three seperate threads for these questions. Please help straighten my image about the world of corn syrup up.[(-D]

Question one: When did ADM come out with their new logo?
Question two: What type of facility are corn syrup tanks unloaded at?
Question three: Where do you usually find these facilities that they are unloaded at.

Any help will be appreciated.

uspscsx

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Question 1: Don’t know as I’m a Cargill guy as thats what I’ve seen most in my location.
Question 2: Unload facilities maybe drain from bottom or suction from top.
Question 3: Facilities can be found at brewerys, canneries for jellies and preserves, and soda pop bottling.

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I would guess that corn syrup tank cars also go to large bakeries. There is a large winery and grape juice concentrate plant around here that receives corn syrup by rail.

Search the “Prototype Information for the Modeler” section of this forum for corn syrup as there was a thread about corn syrup destinations a few months back.

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Thanks for the help and suggestions guys, as I think I will venture over to the “Prototype Information for the Modeler” area.

uspscsx

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I’m not sure what new AMD logo you’re referring to, because I haven’t seen anything that I would consider “new” recently.

Both AMD and Staley Milling Company have large mills and loading facilities at Decatur, Illinois, where hundreds of covered hoppers and tank cars originate weekly. Most of these go south to a Mississippi River transfer dock at Mounds, Illinois.

Users of corn syrup by the tank car load would include candy factories, large bakeries such as Continental (Wonder Bread) and Keebler, and food processors that produce syrups and sugars. The river barge loading facility at Mounds, Illinois, transfers loads from rail cars to barges. These barges move the products to the New Orleans area, where they are transferred to ocean-going ships and tankers for overseas delivery.

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This is the “new” logo I am referring to:

Maybe it’s not exactly new, but it popped up one day and it was new to me.

uspscsx

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Thanks for sending the logo – I have never seen that one out west yet that I can recall, so it must be very new.

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I do not remember when I first saw it, but I am pretty sure that it has been a couple of years.

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I stopped by a Cargill unloading facility in Houston on the ship channel recently. Apparently, they transfer from tank cars to tank trucks here. Essentially a large building with two bay doors on each end for drive-through of the tankers, loading racks inside, with a siding or two at one end of the building. Got a small parking lot and the office/lab is inside. Not much to it.

Mark C.

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I believe Brachs Candies is a major corn syrup via tankcar user.

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Anybody who uses sugar in their product(s) is a candidate for corn syrup. Reason is that there about eleven sugar cane growers somewhere in the south that the feds add an import duty to all other sugar so they can compete. It costs taxpayers far more than if each was given ten million dollars and told to go away. Rather than pay sugar prices that can be as much as double the world market prices they use corn syrup and avoid the cost. Amaizo also makes corn syrup as does Corn Products.