Cement Plants

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Are there any cement plants in Nebraska or the Midwest? Thanks

-Tom

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Ash Grove Cement Company, Chanute, Kansas

Ash Grove Cement Company, Louisville, Nebraska

Ash Grove Cement Company, Foreman, Arkansas

Cemex (Southdown Cement), Clinchfield, Georgia

Cemex (Southdown). Other plant locations:

  • Lyons, Colorado: Primary Crusher and seven overland conveyors with a total length of two miles from crusher to a rotating stacker.
  • Victorville, California: Indirect Coal Firing System; Raw Materials Conveying.
  • Brooksville, Florida: Baghouse and modifications, process ductwork, new fan and stack.
  • Knoxville Tennessee: Waste Fuels tank and drum storage facility, handling, and pumping. Solid Waste Fuels facility.
  • Phoenix, Arizona: New cement transfer terminal.

Continental Cement, Hannibal, Missouri, USA

River Cement Co., Festus, Missouri, USA

Not sure which ones are on-line.

Hope this helps.

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Thank you very much

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Not surprisingly there are two of them on the UP in Mason City, IA. One is Holcim, but I can’t remember the name of the other company.

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Al Gore never could quite make up his mind whether he wanted to be associated with tobacco (farming) or not so shortly before the 2000 presidential campaign he decided to tear himself away from the Washington penthouse where he had spent most of his life and touch base with those agricultural constituents in Tennessee who had been sending him to office for the previous twenty years. He and his driver were on a country road in central Tennessee when Al excitedly pointed across the fields. "Is that a tobacco plant out there?’ he asked.

“No, Mister Vice-President,” his driver responded. “That is a cement plant!”

“Do they all grow that tall?” Mr Gore asked.

I reckon cement plants grow just about everywhere in the country.

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Lone Star Cement Plant, Bonner Springs, Kansas. (Just west of Kansas City on UP main line.)

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Fellers,

Even up here in Maine we have Dragon Cement up towards Rockland, Maine. Really massive facility. They have a train twice a week that rolls south through where I live, and runs between 18 and 25 hoppers, plus some others.

Additionally, theres 20 or so coal cars twice a week headed north through here for the power plant.

Mostly here it’s either covered hoppers, gondolas, coal hoppers or the occasional boxcar and/or tank car. Once in awhile a flat car or two. Biggest trains up here run around 29 cars plus one or two locos.

Respects,

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Lafarge - Sugar Creek, MO (Kansas City - BN served)

Lafarge - Fredonia, KS (SKOL served)

Lafarge - Buffalo, IA (Davenport - IC&E served)

JAJ

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Some cement plants will burn waste chemicals for fuel. Many times they receive these in tankcars.

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Rapid City, SD - Plant used to be owned by the State of South Dakota. Don’t know if it’s still operating, but it’s still visible on Google Maps.

Chuck (former Rapid City resident)

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There is a large limestone quarry and cement plant run by St. Mary’s Cement on the bank of the Rock River in Dixon, IL. It used to be serviced by a UP/ex C&NW spur through town. Very interesting street-running operation. The plant still owns a Alco S1 that sits onsite.

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Hi Gwedd

I thought they only ran hoppers out to a dock in Rockland and shipped the cement to Boston in a barge. How long have they been shipping by rail? What railroad is hauling the hoppers? Maine Eastern then Guilford (Pan Am)? Are they only using whale belly hoppers?

Thanks for the info.

Chris