Cargill purchased some of the assets of the Agway feed division in 2005 following Agway's bankruptcy. As far as I know the petroleum business is still Agway, but all the feed mills have been sold or closed. A previous post said Martin's Creek got 54 car blocks in the 1970's. The recent Railfan & Railroad article and some postings on here talk about 26 car blocks. In the 1970-1990's , grain rates were quoted for single car, 26, 52, and 104 car blocks, 104 being a full train. I think it was Bob Stafford said that the cars came from Buffalo in the winter time. Did Martins Creek get a full 104 car train delivered 26 cars at a time from some place close Martins Creek, or did they only get 26 or 54 cars that were essentially 1/2 or 1/4 of a train dropped off and delivered by the local to Martins Creek? Did they receive year round, or only in winter? And where did the cars come from if not Buffalo? If these ? have been answered previously, I apologize. Thanks in advance Frank "Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country." - William Jennings Bryan "If we go across the border, there will always be one more sanctuary just beyond the one we clean out"-John Paul Vann "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"- Benjamin Franklin "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately"-Benjamin Franklin "Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?" -Alan Keyes The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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