More conventional feed commodities would also be delivered to the siding. Premixed bags of mill feeds from a central mixing plant may show up. All of these shipments would arrive or leave in boxcars, bagged or in bulk as appropriate, and the commodities used in custom mixing of feeds for the farmers. In arranging carloads for your local feed mill or grain elevator, remember the associated operations. For his customers, the merchant likely handled coal, and possibly fuel oil.
Steam show many such facilities.
If the feed mill operator or an associate was an implement dealer, farm machinery would arrive on flat cars to be unloaded on timber or earth fill ramps. Surplus hay and feed quality grain would move among small elevators all over the province and eastern part of the country to those regions which had a shortage, and occasionally a carload of higher quality grain would be consigned to a terminal elevator. A feed mill on your team track is representative of hundreds of actual places in Southern Ontario, Eastern Canada and the United States. It is a wonderful opportunity to tell a story about the surrounding area.