Gouverneur, NY: NYC Depot and Freight House

Depot: (Satellite)

Freight: (Satellite)

Tim Mayers posted two photos with the comment:

Gouverneur, NY -

A postcard that was canceled in 1936 of the New York Central Railroad train station in Gouverneur, NY,. Compared to a picture I took yesterday, Wednesday July 15th,  2026 of the same train station in Gouverneur NY. It's amazing that the station still exists with the state of disrepair that it's in.— with Doug Vensel.

Tricia Bullock Bush: Have you seen my post about saving this? We need people that want to work on it. It can be saved!

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Street View, Jun 2025

While looking for the depot, I found the freight house.

Street View, Jun 2025

1956/58 Gouverneur Quad @ 24,000

This route is now owned by CSX.

National Rail Network Map

Sugar Creek, MO: 1905 Central Plains Cement and Limestone Mine

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Mining #Shorts posted

Sugar Creek looks like a coal operation from the outside: a deep shaft, underground workings and industrial-scale output. But the material leaving this Missouri mine is limestone, the essential raw feed for cement production.

Located beside Kansas City, the operation supports Central Plains Cement’s Sugar Creek plant. The site’s roots reach back to 1905, when it opened as the Missouri Portland Cement quarry and cement works. More than a century later, mining continues beneath the community.

Access to the workings is provided through a vertical shaft descending roughly 700 feet [213m]. Underground, miners use room-and-pillar methods, cutting broad entries while leaving sections of limestone in place to support the roof. The layout includes multiple openings leading toward production and milling areas.

Scale is Sugar Creek’s defining feature. GlobalData estimated that the mine produced about 15.96 million metric tonnes of run-of-mine material in 2021, ranking it among North America’s largest underground mines by extracted tonnage. That figure represents raw limestone movement, not finished cement output.

Eagle Materials acquired the Sugar Creek cement plant and associated assets from Lafarge North America in 2012. The mine is now operated through Central Plains Cement and remains the only underground operation serving Eagle Materials’ cement network, whose other limestone sources use surface mining.

Once extracted, the rock is processed into the principal ingredient for Portland cement used across construction markets. Sugar Creek isn’t an underground coal giant. It’s something far less discussed: a century-old limestone mine operating at a scale comparable with mineral and coal operations.

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Photo: Central Plains Cement

Welland, ON: ASW/Valbruna/Atlas Steel

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Stelco Rod and Bar Hamilton posted seven photos with the comment:

I was asked recently if Atlas Steel in Welland, Ontario, was ever owned by Stelco. The short answer: No. Here's the ownership history of Atlas Steel:

Year         Owner

1918 Dillon Crucible Steel Alloy Co. (original plant)

1920 Atlas Crucible Steel Company

1928 Purchased by Roy H. Davis and associates; became Atlas Steel Company

1963 Acquired by Rio Algom Ltd.

1985 Spun off as Atlas Specialty Steels

1989 Purchased by South Korea's SAMMI Corporation

2000 Purchased by Slater Steel

2006 Purchased by MMFX Technologies

2010 Became ASW Steel

2016 Acquired by Ampco-Pittsburgh (now operating as ASW/Valbruna)

Stelco's major Welland operation was Page-Hersey Tubes.

1965 – Stelco acquired Page-Hersey.

1985 – The operation became Stelpipe Ltd.

2005 – During Stelco's CCAA restructuring, the Welland pipe mill was sold to Lakeside Steel, later becoming JMC/Energex.

So Welland had two completely separate steel companies:

Atlas Steel – specialty steels, stainless steels, tool steels, alloy steels.

Page-Hersey/Stelpipe – welded pipe and tube products owned by Stelco.

Atlas specialized in specialty and stainless steels, while Stelco concentrated primarily on carbon steel. They served different markets and generally complemented rather than directly competed with one another. (Text from ChatGPT.) Photos courtesy of the Welland Tribune.

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Shawn Aulbrook: This is the 10-2 Rod Mill...I worked on that mill as a Rougher and Strander...

Stelco Rod and Bar Hamilton: This Atlas Rolling Mill looks quite similar to Stelco's 'Old Mill' - the 10-9 Mill, which closed in the late 70s ...

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Stelco Rod and Bar Hamilton: Atlas Steel's EAF Furnace - Electric Arc Furnace

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Stelco Rod and Bar Hamilton: Atlas Steel's EAF Furnace - Electric Arc Furnace

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Evan Adam Kitchen commented on the above post
I was recently inside ASW. This is the at the Melt Shop, where the ARC Furnace melts the raw components into steel, inside these laddles. I was using an excavator with hammer to knock out the port holes in the bottom.

Evan Adam Kitchen commented on his comment

Street View, Jan 2012

Photo, Jul 2020

Millerton, NY: Mobil Gas Station

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Dennis DeBruler commented on Jay's comment below
101 Main Street, https://maps.app.goo.gl/AEKhJiYSyKdH4vvP6.

Rob Cooper posted
I think I posted this before but it’s been a while. My station in Millerton.

Jay Howell: Rob Cooper what street? I wanna drive by going home from Lee MA.

Richard Burda, Dec 2023

The blue building on the left still has its 19th Century architecture, and the buildings on the right wish that they still had their Italianate architecture.

Street View, Aug 2025

This was a muffler shop.

Street View, Aug 2025

Dows, IA: Museum/Rock Island Depot and Grain Elevator

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Street View, Jun 2025

Seth Wetzel posted
How about Dows, Iowa depot for a change folks!

Fans of Rock Island Lines posted
Dows IA, 9/22/12.  You can see the sand dome just in front of bell, missing its cap. Still making steam, someone is quick on the draw?

As recently as 2013, the grain elevator was railserved.

Street View, Oct 2013

But the siding has been torn up.

Street View, Jul 2021

Iowa Scenic Views By Foot, Aug 2025

While I was looking for a street view that showed the big window in the waiting room, I noticed that the elevator used to have some smaller bins.

Street View, Oct 2013

They put a lot of money into that elevator considering that they lost their rail service. Is there now a nearby ethanol plant that they can haul to?

Street View, Jul 2021

The only RI route left is the one to the west.

1954/68 Waterloo Quad @ 250,000

UP still owns it even though it no longer uses it.

National Rail Network Map

They added three larger bins in 2005-6. And they were obviously getting rail service back then.

Google Earth, Aug 2006

They got rid of the long building by 2015. Note that they still had their own locomotive back then. It is near the bottom edge of this extract. The small bins were gone by the next view, Oct 2019.

Google Earth, Oct 2015

Revere, MA: Tool Rental/B&M Roundhouse

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Larry Smith posted, cropped
roundhouse is in revere MA and now a tool rental.

The topo maps show a gas-o-meter instead of a roundhouse. I think that is a rare mistake in a topo map.

1956/58 Boston North Quad @ 24,000

Jamestown, CA: Railtown 1897 State Historic Park and Sierra Railway

Park: (Satellite)

Depot: (Satellite)

Roundhouse: (Satellite)

Cydney George-Abatecola, Sep 2021

Michael Chrien, Jul 2020

Mark Mcgowan posted six photos with the comment: "Scenes from the Railtown 1897 roundhouse and shop in Jamestown, Ca."

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darin kram, Nov 2023

1949/49 Sonora Quad @ 24,000