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Plover, Wisconsin, 2019. It's been four years since I watched the cannery being served. Just the luck, I guess; I usually just listen for the horn to know when it happens, and it hasn't been in daylight hours until this time. |
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This corner of the factory gets bathtub gondolas for loading out scrap from manufacturing tin cans. The little bales of steel come clunking out of a yellow chute in the factory wall. I don't know how the rolls of steel arrive for those cans. |
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And they run around their train to get ready for the return trip to Plover yard which is a mile west of here. That's US Highway 51 / Interstate 39 in the distance. |
| The scrap that is left after forming cans is baled into cubes. |
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I think this is still the largest green bean cannery in the world.
I didn't get a picture of the east end where the boxcars are parked for loading cans.
Nor a picture of the front side.
| They head back west to the yard. |
| The Tomorrow River trail runs alongside of the railroad for a mile. |
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It's been 3 weeks and there are still trees left from the storm of July 20, 2019.
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