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Columbia Cascade Railway -Bridgeport |
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| Bridgeport is one of the busiest areas on the Columbia Cascade. The city of Bridgeport operates the Bridgeport Terminal Railroad and to be expected, the switching crew here complains continually about being overworked. To date, the city has refused to add additional crews but at some point in the future, they may have to find money in the budget and relent. Moore Pharmaceuticals, Kronenburg Kartage, Frito-Lay, Owens Corning, Chagnon Steel, are among the big players in Bridgeport. | |
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Looking across the Coldwater River you can see Kronenberg & Sons Storage. Behind is Walton Industries and Bridgeport Grain. |
| Looking East in Bridgeport, Moore Pharmaceuticals with Chagnon Steel in the far background and Sprenger Seafood next to the river and bay area. |
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Another view of Moore Pharmaceuticals. Raw liquid materials are unloaded at a spur to the front and finished products as well as raw materials in box cars arrive at the dock doors. Moore makes a large number of livestock feed additives. |
| Looking West with the mainline next to the isle. |
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Chagnon Steel has a steel fabrication plant that makes a lot of different stamped and fabricated parts. They manufacturer parts for appliances like refrigerators, washer, dryers, ranges, microwaves, etc and probably the biggest commodity is specialized door parts for the auto industry. Box car shipping comes out from two different track, coil steel in on the third. |
| Coil steel is shipped in here. Sprenger Seafoods is on the left and set right on the river with bay access to the ocean. Great Seafoods arrive here fresh daily for the local and distant market. |
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Sprenger Seafoods once iced its own refers. The platforms and docks were removed and new overhead doors replaced. Otherwise the building is much the same after 70 years. The Switching crew has to be careful as in the 40's a crew got a little rough and put 3 refers off the end of the spur and into the bay. |
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