Ritzville Warehouse building road to speed up loading

RITZVILLE – The Ritzville Warehouse is building a road at their Templin Terminal, to speed up access for trucks to wheat stores.

“It will give them access to all the piles in there when we have a train sitting there loading or unloading,” Ritzville Warehouse CEO Brian Gordon said Friday, Jan. 8.

Gordon said construction began last fall, after harvest. Construction of the road over the railroad tracks is being done by Connell Sand and Gravel, and Haskins out of Spokane.

“We’ve already got the culvert in, so we can receive trains now, but they still have work on the road,” Gordon said, adding he...