Working the roads in Grundy County
US-65 is the backbone of Grundy County. It comes north from Chillicothe, passes the east side of Trenton, the county seat, runs through Tindall and carries on past Spickard toward the Mercer County line. Route 6 passes through the south side of Trenton, Route 146 serves Brimson in the west, and Routes 128, 139 and 190 round out the county's main highways. Lettered routes fill in the rest: Route C at Spickard, and Routes E and V meeting at Laredo, south-east of Trenton. From our Liberty yard the way in is through Chillicothe and north on US-65, so on that highway tell us whether you are south of Trenton, in town, or up toward Tindall and Spickard.
Water shapes the ground here. Trenton is built on the Thompson River floodplain, between the river on its west side and Muddy Creek on its east; the Weldon River runs past Tindall and Spickard; Medicine Creek flows along the east side of Laredo; and Sugar Creek skirts Brimson, with Crowder State Park to the south-east. Low ground beside those streams can stay soft well after rain, which can turn a straightforward tow into a winch-out. Trenton also has industry, including Modine Manufacturing's radiator plant, and a food plant there once made the city the world's largest producer of Vienna sausages. If a truck is down inside a plant yard, tell us which gate you came in by.
