Proto photo: Consumer's Glass

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Spotted this beauty while out driving around today. The place is fenced off and there's a security gate, which I tried but was refused admission because the person who could authorize was not there. That's okay, I got a lot of photos from outside the gate. Here's one, looking west.

 

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Following the road around, we are now looking north. Check out those covered hoppers.

 

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Here's a detail shot of the above.

 

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And now around to the other side looking east.

 

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Another close-up shot. The car behind me was not thrilled about my stopping but that's just too bad.

 

[N Gauger]

Neat!! You're right "Too bad" LOL

 

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Just one more detail shot - because it's cool! This is a detail from the first pic, looking west at part of the conveyor assembly.

 

[Ralph]

Great shots of an industry that looks compact enough to model almost as is! Are those cylindrical things on the top of the buildings some sort of vent?
Ralph

 

[Clerk]

Beautiful shots Val. I don't know how I missed this thread earlier but must have been around my surgery.

Won't be long before somebody on the Gauge builds a model of it.

 

[ezdays]

Great shots Val.... I wonder how much cereal I would need to eat in order to do something like that in N scale. I can dream for now I guess. In the meantime, keep those pics coming.

Don

 

[jon-monon]

Great shots, Val. Perfect shadow free lighting. So that's where glass comes from.

 

[MasonJar]

Originally posted by Clerk
Won't be long before somebody on the Gauge builds a model of it.

Give Robin about 72 hours, and I am sure he'll have some pictures up for us . Why so long? Well, he is working on the Canada Malting Plant ... wait, that's probably done by now...!

Andrew

 

[Matthyro]

Wow another great group of photos Val. You are right guys, I want to build this one. I have the perfect spot for it. To begin with I have saved the photos to my hard drive and will print them for reference.
There is a glass factory in Brampton that can be seen from the 410 highway. Is this the same one Val?

 

[cpr_paul]

Originally posted by Matthyro
There is a glass factory in Brampton that can be seen from the 410 highway. Is this the same one Val?

It looks like it to me - right at Clark and the 410. I've ever only seen them switch it once. There is/was also a bunch of old 40' boxcars sitting along the 410 side of the building. I could never figure out what they were doing there.

 

[spitfire]

Originally posted by Matthyro
Wow another great group of photos Val. You are right guys, I want to build this one. I have the perfect spot for it. To begin with I have saved the photos to my hard drive and will print them for reference.
There is a glass factory in Brampton that can be seen from the 410 highway. Is this the same one Val?

Yes - that's the one. It's actually now owned by Owens Illinois and called OI Canada.

I have more photos Robin, mostly close-ups of details I can email to you whenever you need them. Unfortunately I was not able to stop for a shot of the tracks. Maybe another time.

Ralph, those are vents.

cheers
Val

 

[Matthyro]

Thanks Val, I will e-mail you as soon as the Canada Malting structure is done. Thanks a bunch for great photos.