Domino Sugar
#1
There is a beautiful old sugar industry in the harbor of Baltimore. That building complex would consume lots of bricks and windows as a model. Fly around it with Bing and discover all the details added over the years. It is impressive how they did add more modern parts following functional rules only. The total absence of beauty is some kind of beauty too.

http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=qjc6dz8...6563&sty=b

and one side is in the reach of streetview

http://maps.google.de/maps?q=baltimore&o...22,,1,-5.2

ps. No chance for shoe boxes here... Nope
Reinhard
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#2
Now that's a BIG industry! I see they even have a Plymouth switcher for spotting cars in the plant.
Ed
"Friends don't let friends build Timesavers"
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#3
In the late '80's, when the economy was just a bit unsteady, and Burroughs Corp. (mainframe computers) bought Sperry Corp. (mainframe computers) in a hostile take-over (they billed it as a merger to the outside world but it wasn't,) and it became Unisys (and all the former Sperry people got laid off,) I worked for a couple of years for my little brother's sales rep organization. My territory was the state of Maryland and The District. We rep'ed for eleven different companies, mostly connectors, cable (copper and fiberoptic) as well as industrial process control electronics enclosures.

Domino Sugar in Ball'merr was one of my customers. The operation is HUGE!!!!! On my initial visit as the new sales rep, I was given the "$50 tour" ... I saw more stuff than I can remember! But the one thing that still sticks in my mind is that huge structure (I think it was that big white "whale"-looking thing) that was FULL of sugar! The sugar was in piles that were easily two stories tall and it was being moved around by the most huge, spotless, yellow front end loader I have ever seen! The bucket had to be twenty to twenty-five feet wide and maybe ten feet tall! The wheels were easily eight or ten feet in diameter!

I remember almost nothing else about the facility, other than it was right there in the harbor, (a very cool place, Ball'merr Harbor,) and those huge piles of sugar with that clean front-end loader (and its driver in sanitary coveralls, "footies" and a hair net. Big Grin )

I wish I could remember more about the facility ... but ...
biL

Lehigh Susquehanna & Western 

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#4
P5se Camelback Wrote:But the one thing that still sticks in my mind is that huge structure (I think it was that big white "whale"-looking thing) that was FULL of sugar! The sugar was in piles that were easily two stories tall and it was being moved around by the most huge, spotless, yellow front end loader I have ever seen! The bucket had to be twenty to twenty-five feet wide and maybe ten feet tall! The wheels were easily eight or ten feet in diameter!


That must have been a sight for sure! Smile
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#5
Now THAT looks like the sort of place Batman would fight a villian. Very cool find.

Galen
I may not be a rivet counter, but I sure do like rivets!
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#6
Very impressive!
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#7
Here's another Domino plant - Arabi, La, just east of New Orleans

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=domino+sug...=en&tab=wl

Before Katrina, every now and then I'd pick up a load of sugar going to Imperial in Sugarland (west of Houston). Real fun place to get in and out of with a semi...
Len
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Loblolly Logger Wrote:Here's another Domino plant - Arabi, La, just east of New Orleans

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=domino+sug...=en&tab=wl

Before Katrina, every now and then I'd pick up a load of sugar going to Imperial in Sugarland (west of Houston). Real fun place to get in and out of with a semi...
Welcome!
I did never know how much building is required to get so little sugar in the ice cream Big Grin

Did you see the ship? It looks like a sea going ship but seams to a barge without an engine. Do you have such huge barge on the Mississippi moved by tug boats? I did see the common rectangular shaped only.
Another thing are the many windows in both plants. Both building complex might be office buildings if you follow the number of windows. How is sugar produced in a plant with so much windows? Why is that done?
Reinhard
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#9
Go to the left side of the plant and then move north to Weinberger Road - zoom in to the last notch but one, and you should see two trackmobiles
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#10
On the topic of sugar plants, here is a smaller plant located here in Toronto, Ontario - Redpath Sugar.

http://www.bing.com/maps/Default.aspx?en...&FORM=LLDP

Possibly a little easier to manage modeling wise as it is a little more compact. Further up Queen's Quay (pronounced "Queen's Key") is a siding where the plant always has 3 or more hoppers stored. Either empty or full...who knows for sure? The spur that crosses the street I don't think I've ever seen used. They use those track mobiles to bring the hoppers in and out of the plant area, while Canadian National sets out and picks up hoppers using a four axle switcher on the siding. Don't ask me what type...I wouldn't know even if it were right in front of me. :oops:

It always smells like molasses when I ride my bike past there in the summer time.
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