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3M Railroading

This is Wausau, the 3M shingle granule plant.
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It's a big place, and maybe a rarity, considering it is the last heavy industry in an old industrial area.

I used to watch the CNW switch this place in the evenings, over 35 years ago.
With a Fairbanks Morse H-10-44 engine. I vaguely remember CNW 1049, 1051, and 1053.

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All the pipes and conveyors and older brick buildings would make a great Walthers model building kit.

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They have at least two big wheel loaders. Each can push two or three empty hoppers from the little yard to the loading bays.
In the 'old days', I remember the CNW did more of the switching, and a little yellow farm tractor with a wood board would grunt and push a car to the loading chute.

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There are 4 pages in this series:
3M Railroading
Aerial view of the Wausau granule factory
3M Rail Spur on the west side of Wausau
Railroad flag men

Link back to my index page, Bruce's RailRoad Pictures