| A Trackmobile Magnum 4250 TM appears toy-like as it shuttles flatcar loads of plate steel past the massive Briess Malt & Ingredients Co. facility at Manitowoc, WI on 16 Apr. '15. The facility is serviced by CN via former C&NW rails. Briess purchased the facility from Busch Agricultural Resources, Inc. in 2014, after it had been idle since 2011. It was started by the Rahr brewing family in 1847. They owned it until the Rahr Malting Co., a.k.a. Manitowoc Malting Plant, was sold to Anheuser-Busch in 1962. While the west side is still adorned with familiar Budweiser bottles and cans today, it was adorned with the Kingsbury beer logos when I was a kid. |