Alright, how about a little easier one. This is a fairly documentary shot (rather than the artsy stuff I’ve been posting) of a place that I think some will recognize pretty easily:
You made it awful easy for them Chris. Let’s see if Chad and the West Coaster’s can figure it out and point out the significance of what goes on here!
(I might be laying out an Industry spur just across Madison Avenue and Taurus Court if we can get a certain architect in gear and out of a jam caused by an unthinking land butcher/ developer…)
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Sweeet!
Man. Check out that smoke stack,WOW!
Is it in Colorado?
I am going to guess Golden, CO.
I originally thought it was the Coors plant at Golden. But, wouldn’t that have some big mountains in the background?
I don’t know if the brewery is surrounded by mountains. However, I think 1435mm’s post gives a clue. It must be a sugar refinery. So, I am retracting my first guess. The paint scheme on that locomotive coupled to the cylindrical hopper looks familiar, I am trying to remember what company that is.
http://www.amalgamatedsugar.com/ Some of the information on its website leads me to believe this plant may be closed.
The railroad is the Great Western Railway Company. Thanks to 1435mm for the clue.
I had caught that clue, too, but since I don’t know too much about the finer points of western railroading, I knew somebody would beet me to the answer.
I say Loveland too. BTW- The Great Western also ran the Lakeview branch out of Alturas in the late 80s / early 90s.
Sorry about my tardy reply here…internet issues again this morning. Loveland it is. Congrats to all who got it!
But you still have not hit on the relevance of the place.
One of the last sugar refineries using sugar beets grown in the valley?
I know Imperial Sugar, here in Sugarland, just out side of Houston, processed cane sugar…
This was one of the last,or THE last refinery to use steam locos to switch the plant.
Probably not, Western Sugar has a plant at Greeley. If Espeefoamer did not get it, I would say perhaps it was the first sugar refinery in Colorado.
By the way, how bad did it smell out there? I know the sugar refineries (what is left) out here smell as bad as a sewer farm. There are flies all over the place by them also, probably because everything is coated in sugar.
I think that is why the paint scheme looked familiar.
Perhaps it is Omnitrax’s locomotive repair facility.
EricSP has it right - If it was leased by or operated by Omnitrax (26 railroads at last count), it came through here for rebuilding, painting and repairs. Before that, it was the steam shop for GW’s railroad empire in Colorado.
All the sugar plant in Loveland is anymore is a storage facility. (There are beet sugar refineries like this all over Colorado, western Nebraska and western Kansas in various states of repair)…Did tinshoes notice Ft. Morgan and it’s fireless cookers when he zoomed through?