The Western Ontario Portland Cement Co. opened a plant in Atwood, Ontario in the early 1900s. The GTR built a line west from Listowel six miles to Atwood and onward to Kincardine. It was to this line the cement company's non-common carrier railway connected.
The Western Ontario Portland Cement Co. opened a plant in Atwood, Ontario ...
A dump truck unloads ground materials into a slurry bin at the St. Marys Cement Plant. This slurry was a mixture of ground up stone and clay that would later be passed into the kiln.
A dump truck unloads ground materials into a slurry bin at the ...
This picture depicts the slurry silos at the St. Marys Cement Plant. The plant at this time would grind up stone and clay before passing this liquid form into the kiln.
This picture depicts the slurry silos at the St. Marys Cement Plant. ...
This photo depicts the clinker storage building at the St. Marys Cement Plant. The material from the kiln is cooled and is now referred to as clinker. Clinker from the conveyor is transferred to the 45 000-tonne clinker storage building adjacent to the plant. The plant opened in 1912 and ...
This photo depicts the clinker storage building at the St. Marys Cement ...
This early picture depicts a storage shed and silos at the St. Marys Cement Plant. The cement plant opened in 1912. A vehicle is shown entering the building.
This early picture depicts a storage shed and silos at the St. ...
When the St. Marys Cement Company opened in 1912 it had two coal-fired rotary kilns that were each 165 feet long by eight feet in diameter. These kilns could produce 455,000 pounds of cement per day. This photo shows some of the buildings of the original plant with 2 exhaust ...
When the St. Marys Cement Company opened in 1912 it had two ...