03-24-2014, 06:59 PM
Yep I'm doing one of those little cement plants,, 
You got the quarry thing right also. The only difference is that in my neck of the woods both the limestone and gypsum are readily at hand, you just have to dig them up. At one time the Lehigh river flowed through the area where all the cement plants are over here, but when the dinosaurs were the having a good time the river shifted to it's present location. This left all the right minerals for cement right next to each other . Coal is really the only thing that is shipped in and that comes from the next county over. The end result is at least five major cement plants in the same neighborhood. Most of that cement went to New York City via the Lehigh and New England railroad, when you factor how much steel from Bethlehem was shipped there also, the New York Sky line is really just an extension of eastern Pennsylvania. Now that I have rambled way of topic I will go the bed.. :? :? :?
You got the quarry thing right also. The only difference is that in my neck of the woods both the limestone and gypsum are readily at hand, you just have to dig them up. At one time the Lehigh river flowed through the area where all the cement plants are over here, but when the dinosaurs were the having a good time the river shifted to it's present location. This left all the right minerals for cement right next to each other . Coal is really the only thing that is shipped in and that comes from the next county over. The end result is at least five major cement plants in the same neighborhood. Most of that cement went to New York City via the Lehigh and New England railroad, when you factor how much steel from Bethlehem was shipped there also, the New York Sky line is really just an extension of eastern Pennsylvania. Now that I have rambled way of topic I will go the bed.. :? :? :?
My other car is a locomotive, ARHS restoration crew