Plover Foremost plant is closing in 2022 but the rail spur was disconnected already

On the west side of Plover, Wisconsin, is an industry that used to have rail service.
In 2009, most of the spur was still there, but I have never seen a railcar on it.

Foremost is a milk whey processor. Liquid comes in stainless tank trucks, dry milk powders leave.

The home office in Madison announced that the Plover plant will close at the end of December, 2022.
Something about equipment needed updating and there were some personnel concerns.
There's about 100 employees.

I don't know what the future of the structuire may be.

GBW yahoo group message 10516 in 2009:
The Foremost siding was laid in the mid-70's.
They loaded whey powder into boxcars, usually GBW 2700-class 'waffle side' cars, about 1-2 a week.
Spur was cut off by the early 90's. Thanks for the info from RCW

The row of horizontal tanks on the roof line would make for an interesting model.

I had a picture of the west (left) side, but I can't find it on my old picture cd's.
There's three doors boarded up along the siding side, that's out of view of the left of my picture.
I haven't gone there recently to take fresh pictures, even though I live less than 2 miles away.
I won't be building this for my model railroad, anyway.

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Winter view looking south at the whole area, about 2009.

The rails are hidden by snow.

The north side has two semi-truck dock doors.

I haven't paid attention to the spur lately, I think all the rails were removed by 2020, too.

More than one tree was growing between the rails in 2009

When the street crossing was rebuilt, I guess in 2004, the switch was left out.

I remember when this tree was just knee-high, at the turn of the century.

I made a poor panoramic from my old kite camera pictures.

On the right, the picture shows some Algoma Central green cars with wood chips,
which would go to the Whiting paper mill
(which was closed and totally tore down in 2014)
I haven't seen a specific name for the double-ended short siding on the west side of Plover.
I've heard it called the 'new siding' (even though it's probably been there 40 years)
and 'that little siding west of the Y'

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wrote May, 2009, and updated in 2022