Big Endicott area projects wrapping up for winter

The Northwest Grain Growers and the Washington State Department of Transportation are working on projects in Endicott.

NWGG is building new grain elevators that include seven new shipping tanks and a half-million-bushel tank. The addition will bring the total storage on site to more than three million bushels.

A 110 car shuttle loader will transport the white wheat, dark northern spring wheat and hard red winter wheat that the elevators will hold from Endicott to the coast.

To keep up with the traffic, WSDOT and the railroad are putting in a mile-long ladder track which is designed to be able...