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View search results on mapAmerican Seafood occupies 13 acres in New Bedford’s North Terminal, consisting of a scallop processing plant, a cold storage and distribution warehouse, and a “value-added” seafood factory, where they batter, bread, pre-cook, coat, glaze, and marinate millions of fillets of ground fish each year for foodservice and institutional customers including Burger King and Wendy’s.
Cabot’s Cheese is a nationally distributed brand based conceptually and physically in Vermont. Their original plant in Cabot is a Vermont dairy business tourism destination, like Ben and Jerry’s. Cabot is a co-op, and produces cheese from dairies generally less than 60 miles from its two plants.
Cabot’s Cheese is a nationally distributed brand based conceptually and physically in Vermont. Their original plant in Cabot is a Vermont dairy business tourism destination, like Ben and Jerry’s. And, like Ben and Jerry’s, most of their product is made not at the touristed original plant, but at a bigger, newer facility elsewhere, in Cabot’s case, in an industrial park in Middlebury.
Most ice cream is produced close to its market, often in urban and suburban creameries. Ben and Jerry’s though is entirely made in Vermont, and is shipped nationally in small cartons that have to stay frozen. Tourism is built into their first plant at their headquarters in Waterbury, Vermont. Most of their product is made at a much bigger and un-touristed plant in St. Albans.
Most of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream is made in this building, in an office park in St. Albans, Vermont, near the Canadian border. Ben and Jerry’s is owned by Unilever, a British food and consumer products conglomerate, and is the biggest ice cream company in the world.
This was a major munitions plant, with 255 buildings on 2,300 acres, north of Minneapolis. It was built during World War II, as one of six government-owned, contractor-operated munitions plants, producing small arms ammunition to the military, operated by Honeywell for many years. At its peak, in 1943, it employed more than 25,000 people. It was put on standby after the war, but went online again during the Korean and Vietnam wars.
An Atlas F missile silo in the Adirondacks was reclaimed and turned into a home, starting in 1991. An 1,800 square foot ranch style house sits on top of the underground former launch control center, a two level, 2,300 square foot subterranean structure connected to the silo by a 50 foot long tunnel. The launch control center has been upgraded with kitchen, Jacuzzi and marble bathrooms.
This museum is home to three large model railroad layouts: the N scale represents railroading in California in the 1950s, including the Southern Pacific line from Sacramento to the Tehachapi Loop, and from Sacramento to Truckee; the HO scale depicts portions of the Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, and Western Pacific railways in the San Francisco East Bay and interior, north to Sacramento, Roseville, and Truckee over the Donner Pass during various periods from the 1930s to present; and the O
An HO scale model railroad layout depicting the Bowling Green area is on display at the Historic RailPark and Train Museum, housed in the historic L&N train depot. It is a permanent display at the museum, made by the sHOw Modular Model RR Club of Bowling Green, a club that mostly focuses on modular, temporary HO layouts and train shows.
This $1 million-plus, 3,500 square foot HO model railroad layout, called the Great Train Story, is located in the transportation wing of the Museum of Science and Industry, and is loosely based on the 2,200 miles between Chicago and Seattle. The layout includes interactive buttons that allow visitors to animate scenes, as well as dramatic lighting that switches to “nighttime mode” every half hour.
With more than 8 miles (about 50,000 feet) of track over 52,000 square feet, Northlandz is the nation’s largest model railroad exhibit, by far. The vision of Bruce Williams Zaccagnino, Northlandz is an HO fantasy trainscape that started in 1972 in the basement of Zaccagnino’s home. By 1977 the layout had grown to occupy 4 additional levels, and it opened to the public in a large commercial building in 1997.
This HO scale model railroad layout, called Mainline in Miniature, sits on the second floor of an old train depot, now the local museum and home to the Portage Area Historical Society. The detailed 225 square foot layout depicts the Portage Railroad, including notable railway sites such as the Horseshoe Curve, Gallitzin Tunnels, and Mule Shoe Curve. It was built by local train enthusiast Charles Edwards, along with numerous volunteers, and opened to the public in 2008.
This O scale model railroad layout, built by local train enthusiasts Milton Brockmeyer and Willie Ryan, is the centerpiece of the Ratcliffe Transportation Museum. Measuring 80 by 26 feet, the layout depicts the town of Pulaski’s booming commercial district in 1955.
The Starrucca Viaduct is a picturesque stone arch bridge spanning a river and valley near the New York state line in northeastern Pennsylvania. It was completed in 1848, and was the largest structure of its kind when it opened. The viaduct is still in use today, with occasional traffic by the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway.
Due to its location between the midwest and eastern seaboard, and the resource-based industries it harbored, Pennsylvania has many railroad landmarks. The maximum grade for railroads is generally less than 2%, so the hilly terrain sometimes forced the railways to meander dramatically. Horseshoe Curve, in western Pennsylvania, is one of the more scenic and visible meanders.
Rising out of the plains at the front range north of Denver, the railroad makes a long slow curve of 270 degrees. Called the Big Ten, because the radius of the track’s curve is ten degrees, based on the method railways uses to measure curves. Built in the early 1900s, this section of track was once the Denver and Rio Grande Western RR, and is now Union Pacific. It is also the route of Amtrak’s California Zephyr, passenger service from Chicago to Emeryville, California.
The Moffatt Tunnel is a six-mile long railroad and water tunnel bored through the continental divide in the Rockies in the late 1920s. It bypassed more than 20 miles of slow and meandering track including loops and tunnels, over Rollins Pass, between Tolland and Fraser, Colorado. Ultimately, the new route, with other smaller tunnels, cut off around 175 miles of track distance between Denver and the Pacific Coast. The tunnel took four years to make, and opened in 1928.
This N-scale model railroad layout of the Willard Rail Yard, in Willard, Ohio, built over decades by local resident and former railroad employee Roy Edler, inside his double-wide trailer home in Willard. After it was completed, it was carefully removed, much to his wife’s relief, and installed in an old boxcar, as part of a historic railroad display assembled and maintained by the Willard Historical Society.
The Enfield Canal, also known as the Windsor Locks Canal, was built on the west side of the Connecticut River in 1829, to allow commercial shipping past the Enfield Falls, a rapids still visible in the river’s main channel. The canal runs for five miles, from the town of Windsor Locks, at the Interstate 91 bridge, to Suffield, where the abandoned locks at the northern end serve as an entry point for towpath. The locks have not operated since the 1970s.
The City of Hartford started burning trash on the riverbank in 1940, and the site evolved into the main disposal sites for the city. The incinerator operated here into the 1970s, and the landfill grew, becoming a highly visible mound next to the interstate north of downtown. It received its last load of waste in 2008, and efforts have been underway since then to isolate it from the environment, including covering it with plastic and a soil cap.
Hartford (like Albany, New York, also an up-river state capitol) was settled in the 17th century, at the most inland point for commercial navigation at the time. Like many other cities too, modern Hartford ignored its river in the 20th century. After the Second World War, as its economy moved from machine tool industries to insurance companies, the city built dumps and interstates along its waterfront.
The Colt firearms company built its main manufacturing plant on the river at Hartford in 1855. Known as the Colt Armory, the multi-building complex was one of the principal industrial villages of New England, manufacturing famous firearms over the span of American History, from capturing the West, to the Civil War, to the Gulf War, as well as providing guns for police, security, and the public.
The massive quarries at Middletown, located in the middle of the state, were a major source of brownstone for buildings all over the eastern USA, as early as the 18th century. Quarried stone was transported easily by boat from the riverside quarries. The pits became filled with water in the great Connecticut River flood of 1936, ending most of the quarrying.
Gillette’s Castle is one of the more unusual private residences in the nation. It was built between 1914 and 1919 by William Gillette, an actor best known for playing Sherlock Holmes on the stage. He was involved in all aspects of its design and it has a unique, hand-carved, rough-hewn texture throughout, evoking a fairytale hybrid of arts and crafts, middle age castle, gothic church, and stage set.
This is one of two active ferry crossings remaining on the Connecticut River. The Chester-Hadlyme ferry began here as a private ferry, in 1769, and is now operated by the Connecticut Department of Transportation. It closes for the winter, forcing people to cross on bridges at East Haddam, three miles north, or Old Lyme, ten miles south. It has a capacity of around 9 cars, and sees around 100 cars per day, and takes five minutes.
The town of Essex is one of the only towns in the state that is really integrated with the Connecticut River. Main Street ends at a boat ramp, next to the Connecticut River Museum.
The Connecticut River flows out of the dam that forms the second Connecticut Lake, in northern New Hampshire. Though there is another, smaller dam on the river a few miles up the river, near the Deer Mountain campground, this is the first major dam on the river, as it emerges from its marshy headwaters at the Fourth Connecticut Lake, just a few hundred feet south of the Canadian border.
The consumer testing organization, Consumer Reports, operates a vehicular testing facility in Colchester, Connecticut. The 327-acre site, in the woods in southeastern part of the state, is the largest independent automotive test site devoted to consumer interests. Vehicles are purchased anonymously every year and tested here. The Consumer Reports main product and service testing center is in Westchester, New York.