Please checkout the five photos
posted by Richard Elleby. My first thought when I saw that posting was that
Chicago Short Lines was leasing a locomotive from RSSX. But I determined that
RSSX was the company that was doing the switching. I'm reminded that the X at the end of a reporting mark does not necessarily mean that it is a leasing company. It means it is not a common carrier. According to Richard, RSSX not only switched Cargill and Lever, it interchanged cars with Norfolk Southern at
Colehour Yard.
I was aware of the Lever Brothers' 1930 plant in Hammond, IN, that makes 2.5 million bars of soap per day. "The company also used to produce many different products, including Mrs. Butterworth syrup; Imperial and Promise margarine; All and Rinso detergents; Spry, Sunlight and Lux dishwashing liquids; and many different brands of bar soap. Today, that lineup has been streamlined solely to the production of Dove, Caress, Lever2000 and Suave bars of soap. 'In the past 25 years, the company has invested over $180 million in the factory and built two state-of-the-art manufacturing complexes,' Cole said of the Hammond facility." With an operating budget of over $60 million, improvements here are continual. Currently, the company has 350 local employees, but during the '70s, the plant employed approximately 1,600" As of 1995, it is
Unilever. (
IndianaEconomicDigest)
I was not aware of the Cargill plant. Looking at their web site, they do a lot of things that don't need lots of grain bins. In this case, "
Texturizing Solutions." I've heard of "processed food" and how we should avoid them. I thought it was because processed foods contain too much salt. This makes it look like the processing can be as complicated as an oil refinery plant. It is interesting to note that
one of the biggest oil refineries in the country is just a mile or so southeast.
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