Photographs of Various American Industries by Trucker Mike

Photographs of Various American Industries

by Trucker Mike, page 1

Links to Vehicle pictures, Sunset and sky pictures, Water tower fotos.

Here is a partial list of the raw materials and finished products that I picked up and delivered throughout the country:

Raw materials or incomplete products: metal ores such as manganese, chromium, iron and tungsten, used for tungsten rings and tungsten wedding bands; 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, electrical wires and cables, construction cables on large reels, etc.

Links to videos, lyrics and Wikipedia biographies of American music and artists.

Practice reading everyday English with song lyrics and stories about the singers and bands at www.mikiemetric.com .


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.

Solid aluminum "pigs" outside a plant in Illinois.	Petroleum storage tanks at Ashland, Kentucky.	Coal-fired electric power plant in southern Indiana.

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.

Assignment: 1. Give the locations of 3 coal-fired electric power plants. 2. What bodies of water are used to ship products in the US? 3. Where will you see buildings, equipment and pavement discolored by iron dust? 4. Where is an aluminum processing plant located? 5. GE makes jet airplane engines north of Cincinnati, OH. What other major business is GE involved in?


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.

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.

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. The reddish-orange color comes from oxidized iron dust.

Alabama	Florida	Murals	Ohio	Truck Wrecks	Water Towers
Bridges	Industry	New Hampshire	Pennsylvania	Vehicles	Weather and Seasons
Buildings	Maine	New Jersey	Signs and Billboards	Vermont.
Connecticut	Maryland	New York City	Stadiums.	Virginia
Electric Power Line Towers	Massachusetts	New York State	Sunset and Sunrise