Rock Island Auburn Park Depot

(Satellite)

The tracks are so high here because just south of here they go over the elevated tracks of the BRC and NS/C&WI (Wabash).

Bill Molony posted
The Rock Island's Auburn Park commuter station, as it looked in 1985.
Mark Kocol: And today (or whenever Google was out shooting images): https://goo.gl/maps/KXKTzzsKN59oGppP8

The street view specified in Mark's comment

Chattanooga, TN: US Pipe and Foundry Co.

(3D Satellite)

Tyler Spangler posted seven photos with the comment: "U.S pipe . Chattanooga TN."

Tyler Spangler: The company’s owners, David Giles and Caleb B. Isbester, were Pennsylvania iron men who had manufactured pipe in Nashville since 1867. Together they established the Chattanooga Pipe and Foundry Works in 1877, building a modern and efficient plant along Whiteside Street adjacent to the city’s growing rail yard.

Chattanooga Pipe and Foundry became one of the city’s leading manufacturers and was recognized as one of the nation’s finest iron fabricators. The company was also one of the city’s top employers and engaged over 150 workers, two-thirds of whom were black. Innovators from the outset, Giles and Isbester experimented with a number of revolutionary manufacturing techniques and even attempted to find new uses for industrial wastes–using spent tans for fuel and converting furnace ashes to fertilizer.

In 1899, following a protracted local depression, Chattanooga Pipe and Foundry consolidated with other regional fabricators to form the United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Company. Later, in 1936, the company closed the old Whiteside Street plant and moved its operations to the current facility on Chestnut Street near Moccasin Bend. In 1969 the firm, now known as U.S. Pipe and Foundry Company, was purchased by the Jim Walter Corporation, a leading producer of building materials and prefab houses.

Trevor Shellhammer: Did they operate a cupola? And did they spin cast pipe, or make sand castings, or both? Aaaand, gray or ductile iron, or both? Chattanooga is nice, shame for this. US Pipe has shut down other plants, (NJ, AL), and bought othere (Griffin in VA). Infrastructure $$$ will help, hopefully.

Tyler Spangler: Trevor Shellhammer I think they did all of the above . I know a few guys that used to work there they talked about the processes of making the pipe . I always though that type of work sounded interesting . It’s a shame they let it get to what it is . They’re taking of building a new baseball stadium there even though we have the lookouts stadium 2 miles down the road

There are several industrial buildings down by "Moccasin Bend." This is the photo that allowed me to identify the location of these buildings on the satellite map.

Digitally Zoomed

3D Satellite

I doubt this is in this plant, but I needed somewhere to note this. I think this is spin casting the pipe.

0:18 video @ 0:05, cropped

Bingham Canyon Copper Mine near Salt Lake City, UT

(Satellite, 472 photos)

geology.utah.gov calls it "the world's deepest pit."

The primary metal is copper, but it also produces gold, silver and molybdenum.

safe_image for Reflecting on the 'rich history' of copper mining in Bingham Canyon
Copper is also going to be mined from underground in this area.
In 1904 the first open pit copper mine in the world was started.
"The National Register of Historic Places document about the mine filed in the 1980s noted that it had produced more than 24.6 billion pounds of copper just from 1904 to 1982."
"Today, the mine is known as 'the world's biggest man made excavations and among the deepest open-pit copper mines,' according to Mining Technology. It produced 159,400 tons of copper last year, in addition to sizeable amounts of gold, silver and the chemical element molybdenum."

The Kennecott mine is currently owned by Rio Tinto, and it has a visitor center.

RioTinto

The visitor center may be a rather recent development.

utah
"Join Rio Tinto Kennecott for the inaugural season of the new Visitor Experience at Bingham Canyon Mine"

 

mining.com
"Today what was a mountain 108 years ago is a pit more than than three-quarters of a mile deep (that’s more than 200 stories high) and more than two and three-quarter miles wide across the top. The elevation of the mine drops from 8,040 feet to 4,390 feet above sea level. If you stretched out all the roads in the open-pit mine — some 500 miles of roadway — you’d have enough distance to reach from Salt Lake City to Denver."

J. Ward, Jun 2018

Moveis_Well, Dec 2018

mining.com
Late evening on Apr 10, 2013 there was the "largest 'man-made' landslide ever recorded." Fortunately, that morning ground probes and radar monitoring equipment detected slope deformation increasing from 1mm a day to 5mm a day so all of the employees were evacuated from the bottom of the pit.

There was another landslide on May 31, 2021. It was much smaller and once again geotechnical monitoring "identified the instability prior to the failure, allowing the operators to ensure that no-one was at risk." [LandslideBlog]

Fox13

I looked at Global Earth images, but I could not find the Apr 2013 landslide.

Ancient Threads posted
A train carrying copper ore crossing a high trestle in Bingham, Utah, 1914.

They not only have had to dig down very deep, they removed the side of a mountain.

1885/1922 Tooele Valley Quad @ 250,000

14:50 Megaprojects video

Sparrows Point, MD: Casting a Roll for the Bethlehem Mill

This roll was cast for the Bethlehem Sparrows Point Steel Mill. I'm documenting it in separate notes because it is fascinating and because Google can no longer handle large posts and the Sparrows Point notes are getting big.

Patrick Tuttle posted 20 photos with the comment: "I hope that I am not 'pushing my luck' by posting something that has twenty pictures. I am also hoping that the majority of members enjoy it. I have posted bits and pieces of the last Sparrows Point roll that we ever cast (May 1993). Here are the pictures of the whole process. They are in sequential order. Enjoy. You might consider this to be insane, but I REALLY enjoyed doing this. On a personal note, the pictures and the video are two times of my most treasured possessions."

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David Wilson: I can feel the heat hooking those chains up.
BLISTERINGLY HOT!!!!

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Stonington, IL: Wabash Depot and Co-Op Grain Elevator

Depot: (Satellite, you can still see the foundation southeast of the tracks)

Bill Molony posted

Dennis DeBruler commented on Bill's post
I wonder when and why the depot that was standing in 1938 just northeast of this building was replaced.
https://clearinghouse.isgs.illinois.edu/webdocs/ilhap/county/data/christian/flight10/0bgb02061.jpg

Dennis DeBruler commented on Bill's post
It appears the foundation still exists. I think the brick building peaking out among the trees is the same one that is in the background of the photo.
 https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m6!1e1!3m4...

The town hasn't grown much since 1938, but the grain storage sure has. There are farm service structures all over that town. Christian County FS on the southwest side is obviously a fertilizer supply company. And Prairieland AG LLC also supplies fertilizer.

Satellite

I don't know if the concrete silos, metal bins and long building on the northeast side of town is part of the Legacy Grain Cooperative.

Street View, May 2012

The main facility may be rail served because it has a fall protector.

Street View, Apr 2018

Indeed, it was served with hoppers as recently as this month (Jan 2023). I placed the upper-right corner of this excerpt just past the cut that was in town because it is hard to see at a scale that includes all of the hoppers.

Google Earth, Jan 2023

In addition to grain hoppers, it looks like there may be three hoppers of fertilizer in the town.

Google Earth, Jan 2023

This is more evidence that NS is much more willing to serve grain elevators than is UP. (Attica and State Line City are two former-Wabash towns that are still served by NS.)