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(WTAQ-WLUK) — Two Northeast Wisconsin communities are receiving grants to improve their freight rail facilities.
Luxemburg in Kewaunee County and Wrightstown in Brown County, along with Reedsburg in Sauk County, will receive $4.8 million of Freight Railroad Infrastructure Improvement Program (FRIIP) grants.
The improvements include upgrades to agricultural facility equipment, construct new storage at a transload terminal, and install a new industry track.
- Rio Creek Feed Mill – awarded $1.5 million in May 2024 to help fund the construction of a 1.339-million-bushel grain bin, a support tower, loading equipment, and unloading equipment at its facility in Luxemburg located in Kewaunee County. Construction of the bin will improve rail car loading and unloading efficiency, leading to annual transportation cost savings exceeding $600,000 per year after two years. The facility receives inbound carloads of canola meal, soybean meal, corn gluten, and distiller grains. Rio Creek Feed Mill is served by the Fox Valley & Lake Superior Rail System.
- The village of Wrightstown – awarded $2,433,882 in September 2023 to construct 4,172 feet of industry track in Wrightstown, located in the Fox Valley. Construction of the track will extend an existing village-owned industry lead to Drexel Building Supply and enable Drexel Building Supply to shift shipping of lumber to the facility from truck to rail, leading to annual transportation cost savings exceeding $800,000 per year after five years. Businesses located on the village’s industry lead are served by the Canadian National Railway.
- Riffey Transload – awarded $825,267 in September 2023 to help fund the construction of a new trackside storage building at its transload terminal in Reedsburg. Riffey Transload has already invested more than $300,000 for track, storage, and other facility improvements at the Reedsburg terminal. The new hoop barn-type storage building will enable Riffey Transload to reduce transportation costs for its customers in the food products industry in Sauk County and surrounding counties in Southcentral Wisconsin. Riffey Transload is served by the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad.
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