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Photos of Industries in My America

by Trucker Mike, page 1

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Industries, Page 2

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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Allegany River barge at New Kensington, PA. Cylinders - Reynolds Aluminum, Cressona, PA Aluminum tubes, Cressona, Penna.
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.
Aluminum pigs, somewhere in Illinois. Storage tanks, Ashland refinery, Kentucky. Electric power plant, southern Indiana.
Solid aluminum "pigs" outside a plant in Illinois. Petroleum storage tanks at Ashland, Kentucky. Coal-fired electric power plant in southern Indiana.
Coal-fired power plant, Washingtonville, PA Apartment complex construction site, Virginia. Heavy equipment at construction site, VA.
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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Construction stone display, Illinois. Barge with crane, up-state New York. Electric power plant, North Carolina.
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.
Feed-mixing silos, North Carolina. Freighters at dock, Baltimore Harbor, MD. Frigid Lake Seneca, New York.
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.
GE plastics plant, Washington, West Virginia. Hoeganaes Powdered metal plant, Riverton, NJ. Rust-colored stuff, Hoeganaes, Riverton, NJ.
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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