Marion County
A portable plant, and a yard named for somewhere across the river
The stone operation here is a portable registration under Central Stone Company, eight employees, 6.78 miles from the middle of town. A portable plant is moved to the work rather than the work being brought to it, so its history is a run of jobs in different places rather than one road environment.
The rail yard is stranger. The North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics names it West Quincy, after an unincorporated place on the Missouri bank opposite Quincy in Illinois, and it sits 9.32 miles from this town.
And the county restricts a fifth of what it owns
That county is a harder network than the two either side of it.
Eight of those nine are the county’s own, and the nearest is 4.64 miles out. So the restrictions here are county roads rather than state ones, which is what a portable plant working local jobs would actually meet.
The cap is tight.
Farm trucks and grain hauls off the river bottom. Around the Central Stone registration, and across Marion County, this town turns over a steady amount of it.
Around the West Quincy yard, and across Marion County, there is usually one sitting.