STC Yard

Press Release
11/20/07

FORCED TO MOVE

Grain Elevator is Moving

Northern Iowa Grain has lost its lease on its trackside location and will be forced to move at the end of this shipping season. Today the Cascade Western Rail Road has announced that they cancelled the ground lease of Garner & Partners, owners of Northern Iowa Grain in the town of Steven Center, Iowa.

A new lease has been obtained at a location near the depot that is more convenient to town and adjacent to the freight house. After the elevator is emptied of grain later this year, it will be move to this new location and resume business after a months delay. Foundation work at the new location is expected to start soon.

The Cascade Western Rail Road reported that increasing business requires an expansion of its local yard facilities and the only location was on the grounds occupied by the Northern Iowa Grain company’s elevator. They had already been using parts of the elevator track for additional yard storage.

The railroad will expand the local yard from 3 tracks to 5 tracks after the elevator has been move. It is expected that the construction crew working on the mainline extension to Walker will also be doing this work.

Howard R Garner
President, Cascade Western Rail Road

HR Garner
Managing Partner, Garner & Partners


	The grain elevator located at the far end of the yard has to be moved The yard will add an additional track in the open space, take over the track to the elevator and extend all tracks to the maximum possible. This is all to take care of increased traffic through this yard.


	This shows the grain elevator moved to the other end of town. This will be its new location.


	This is the yard area after removing the elevator track and one of the yard tracks


	The track has been re-laid. The new track 3 and 4 are Central Valley tie strips and a Central Valley turnout. Track 5 was laid with flex track. Tracks 1 & 2 will be extended.


	Steven Center Yard has now been completed. It’s new capacity is 41 cars. This should help clear the bottleneck that has existed here for the last couple of years.


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