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bman

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Re: Pop industrial architecture question
« Reply #15 on: November 22, 2013, 01:31:27 PM »
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Here's the link to a photo from the website Columbus Railroads.  It's 1932 and the C&O delivered coal to the Ohio State University power plant.
The spur had to cross the Olentangy River to get to campus.  In the text it says the railroad ran down the middle of Stadium Drive.  If you look just above the number 0 on the left side of the map, you can see the turnout for the spur and the tracks heading onto Stadium Drive.  If I can find a better photo I'll add it here.

http://www.columbusrailroads.com/new/utility/display_html.php?htmltitle=North+Columbus&file=.%2Flive%2F05Steam_Railroads%2F21Aerial_Photos%2Faerial_north_cbls.htm

Here's the area today with Stadium Drive being renamed Wood Hayes Drive.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=woody+hayes+drive&hl=en&ll=40.004394,-83.026085&spn=0.009599,0.021007&sll=40.004739,-83.026085&sspn=0.009599,0.021007&t=h&hnear=Woody+Hayes+Dr,+Columbus,+Ohio+43210&z=16
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Re: Pop industrial architecture question
« Reply #16 on: November 22, 2013, 01:50:09 PM »
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The only examples I could think of out west (WP primarily) would be for some of the lumber mills in the Feather River area, or the Oroville Dam project.  I don't have any difanative proof of something like that being done, but those would make the most sense.  Both options by now would have long been taken down, as the Dam rail infrastructure is now underwater, and most of the mills around the River have been out of service for decades.
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