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Photos of Industries in My America by Trucker Mike, page 1 |
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As a truck driver, I dealt with many different industries as I picked up and delivered raw materials and finished products throughout the United States. Here is a partial list.
| Raw materials or incomplete products: metal ores such as manganese, chromium, tungsten and iron; powdered materials such as calcium carbonate, talc, graphite, and plastics components; rough lumber, hardwood furniture blanks, veneers, sheets of particle board; stamped and machined metal parts such as hinges, auto trim, truck components; rolls of sheet aluminum, brass and steel; sheets of coated steel for making food cans; rolls of paper from fine magazine-quality to heavy cardboard quality; rolls of nylon and pressed fibers for making clothing and carpets; dried lima. navy, pinto and kidney beans in 1000-lb. sacks; extruded aluminum parts for making commercial doors and store fronts; axle, wheel and brake assemblies for commercial trucks and trailers, etc. |
| Finished Products: sound-deadening and insulation materials for new automobiles; live flowers and plants for nurseries; pine needle mulch packed loosely in the trailer; cans and jars of grocery products: soups, spaghetti products, sauces, fruit, etc.; cans, bags and boxes of pet foods; new furniture, both upholstered and case goods; new exterior and interior doors; vinyl windows for residential use; corrugated and pressed cardboard for product packaging; rubber gym and exercise mats; custom-made office furniture; automobile carpeting, both new for the assembly line and after-market, etc. |
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| Barge on the Allegheny River loading or unloading cargo at New Kensington, Pennsylvania. | Cylinders of solid aluminum outside a Reynolds plant in Cressona, Pennsylvania. | Aluminum tubes for extrusion work at plant in Cressona, Pennsylvania. |
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| Solid aluminum "pigs" outside a plant in Illinois. | Petroleum storage tanks at Ashland, Kentucky. | Coal-fired electric power plant in southern Indiana. |
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| Another coal-fired power plant at Washingtonville, Pennsylvania. | Part of a construction site, with bathroom, where an apartment complex for senior citizens was being built. | This is the sort of traffic I had to dodge at the construction site. Notice my blue cab in center picture. |
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| Roadside display by a construction stone company in Illinois, outside Chicago. | Crane-equipped barge or tug boat, possibly somewhere in upper New York State. | Electric power plant, probably coal-fired, in North Carolina. |
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| Grain and feed-mixing facility in North Carolina. Does stuff go up the tubes FROM the silos? or down the tubes TO the silos? | Docked freighters in Baltimore Harbor, Maryland. | Vapors rising from a frigid Lake Seneca, where I was waiting for a load of salt. |
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| Part of a GE plastics plant near Washington, West Virginia. | This picture and the next one show the rust-colored pavement, buildings and equipment at a | powdered metal plant owned by Hoeganaes, in Riverton, New Jersey. |
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