LaFarge North America (Huron Cement)
The bridge in the background is the Ohio Street Bridge.
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| Brian R. Wroblewski posted I tried to do a comparison view of the NACC Capri arriving today with an old shot of the JB Ford from 1966 at the LaFarge (Huron Cement) elevator in Buffalo. I don't have a credit source for the shot of the Ford. |
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| Street View, Sep 2014 |
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| 1 of 4 photos posted by Brian R. Wroblewski The Petite Forte & the St. Mary's cement under contract to Holcim in Buffalo on 10-24-23. This is only the 2nd time they've ever been here as a pair. The tug (before she had an upper pilothouse) used to push the barge Clarkson Carrier in the early 90s to the St. Lawrence Cement terminal on the Union Ship Canal but that service ended 30 years ago & she switched barges to this one. |
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| 1 of 4 photos posted by Brian R. Wroblewski Petite Forte & the St. Mary's Cement at the Holcim cement terminal in Buffalo. 10-24-23. [Note the two hoses in the background used for pneumatic unloading.] |
St. Marys
Brian's photo above shows that LaFarge uses water transport. I assume that this facility also uses water transport because it has no rail service even though their are tracks on the other side of the street. I could not see an unloading hopper next to the river, but then I checked and I could not find one for LaFarge either. Looking closer at Brian's photo, LaFarge doesn't use self-unloading boats. A boom comes out of the tall building on the side of the silos to unload a boat. So now I'm again confused as to how St. Marys receives its cement for distribution. (Update: it uses pneumatic unloading.)
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| Jerry M Malloy posted The J.A.W. Iglehart cement carrier, leaving Buffalo Harbor under the Michigan Ave. lift bridge over the Buffalo River. Kellogg Elevator in back. 1980s. View from roof of the Harbor Inn building Ohio St. |
2 of 11 photos posted by Brian R. Wroblewski with the comment: "These are some random shots I’ve taken in Buffalo over the last month or so showing a bunch of different elevators. I always try to work them into my photos as some are no longer used."
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| a Kellogg elevator, now used (partially) by St. Mary’s cement & a private owner. |
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| b Larger section of the Kellogg is empty. |
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