Earl Wrote:
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>
... The facility south of Adams State College
> was a Koppers (?) tie treating plant. There was
> a small yard out there known as the "Pickler Yard"
> (for "pickling" ties). In later years the trackage
> was used for pipe transfer. There is still a small
> amount of abandoned trackage out there in the
> field.
The location is a toxic mess, every time
>
it rains hard out there, creosote oozes up in
>
puddles.
IIRC, during a recent Superfund cleanup of the site skeletons of the prehistöric ancestors of Chamaliens were discovered buried in the goo, and these have been cleaned up and reassembled for display in the foyer of the Adams State College Southwest Studies Building. (See the thread beginning with [
ngdiscussion.net], especially [
ngdiscussion.net] et seq.)
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender