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| Dave Durham posted CRI&P, Geneseo around 1905. CB&I constructed lots of steel railway water tanks and towers, replacing many wooden structures. In this advertisement, the base appears to be about 8' of concrete, I wonder if time has been able to obliterate THAT railroad artifact. Greg Burnet Yup. East side of Vincennes, at about 105th St. It was a very large complex.Dick James Greg Burnet -- CB&I also had rail service on its east side from the Pennsy Panhandle line. The 50s era water tanks that looked like a golf ball atop a giant tee were called Horton Waterspheres. One summer while in college I worked at the CB&I construction warehouse at 95th & Cottage Grove. Spent lots of time cleaning , putting new connections on, then coiling welding cable into 55 gallon drums. The offered me a higher paying job climbing out the top of the spheres, lowering myself on a bosuns chair to scrape and paint. I declined. I think Arthur Baer president of the near-by Beverly Bank on 103rd St. and Baer's Dept. Store on Vincennes was a big share holder in CB&I. Frank Smitty Schmidt CB&I built a lot of LST's during WWII. Dennis DeBruler This caused me to check my notes. I see that they are the company that built and ran the LST shipyard in Seneca, IL. https://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/.../seneca-landing... Denis Johnston I was an overhead crane operator at the plant after CB&I moved. Magi-Metal Supply. Back in the days when you operated the crane up in the crane. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Dave's post Corresponding 1938 aerial photo. https://clearinghouse.isgs.illinois.edu/.../0bwq05013.jpg |
I WORKED AT CB&I PLANT IN WASHING HEIGHTS CHICAGO 1952 TO 1956
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