Eastern Railroad Discussion > Cement plant at Speed, Indiana?

Is the Portland Cement Plant still in operation at Speed, Indiana?
I beleive this was on the old Pennsy. If it's still in operation, has there been a name change? What railroad services it?

Also, where do they get their raw materials? What type of fuel is used for the Kiln and what car types are used other than covered hoppers? I'm a model railroader and I'd like to model something like this operation cira 1950. I saw a small article published in the 1950's that had a few photos of this operation. I assume it's changed a lot since then.

It's serviced by the Louisville & Indana. I don't know the answers to the other questions.

It is going strong still and is served by the Southern Indiana Railway too, here are a couple of Alco rebuilts switching, the line beside them is the L&I.

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Here is another shot of the Southern Indiana Alcos switching inside the plant. Have a good and safe day.

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Here is the ZTS map for the cement plant as of 4/15/86 when the L&I tracks were still part of Conrail. The tracks are described as:
203 Louisville Secondary 226 Siding (Speed) 611, 612, 614 Yard Tracks (Speed) 844, 845 Coplay Cement
I'm guessing but it would seem that the curved track going north and east from 845 would be the connection to the Southern Indiana and the ine shown against the east side of the plant would be Southern Indiana, also. (North is to the right)

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Here's a photo of the same plant in the 1940's or early 1950's. Of course, it was served by the Pennsy and the Southern Indiana. Note the water tank in background. Those are reefers used to shipped out bagged cement when boxcars are in short supply.

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