| CN local picks up some empty flat cars from the small yard adjacent to the massive Briess Malt & Ingredients Co. facility via former C&NW rails at Manitowoc, WI on 17 Apr. '15. 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 adorned with familiar Budweiser bottles and cans today, it was adorned with Kingsbury beer logos when I was a kid. The tracks in the foreground are remnants of the small yard that used to service one of two car ferries that used to tie up at Manitowoc, the slip is out of frame to right. This particular ferry still runs, but it no longer carries rail cars across the floating section of US 10 between Wisconsin and Michigan. |