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Plover, Wisconsin, USA. By Hoover Avenue on the east side of Plover,and next to the former Green Bay and Western mainline. The building has been for sale a long time, and is used as warehouse space for maybe paper. |
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Historical note from Jerry R: The "Plover Bakery" in your photos is the old Bake Right building. Bake Right was an outfit similar to Wonder Bread but on a more local area. It served a good share of central and northern Wisconsin. It closed in 1984 or late 1983. It was a bakery for about 33 years. They may have provided IGA's and Copps with an in-house brand of bread but also made their own brand name of bread.
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Aerial view of the west side and the spurs. . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . . .(Scroll right.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and note the color difference of ballasts, that would be interesting on a model. |
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The whole building would be very large to model,
and it would be more reasonable to build just the two spurs and the end of the building and paint the rest onto a background board.
I don't know what's in the tall part,
but I would guess flour storage tanks or bins?
The various roof heights would make an interesting model.
There's an unloading shed for Hoppers.
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There's a little platform on the wall,
see picture below,
but it's not obvious what it is was for.
Maybe a place to set a clipboard, tools, and shipping seals while opening hopper hatches to vent a Center Flow hopper during unloading?.
Could a bakery this size receive whole grain that would be screened and ground on site?
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A short door suggests there may have been a conveyor or auger here for unloading cars. Maybe one was rolled out of the building just for unloading, then stored inside again. |
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A rusty pipe is still there for a pneumatic unloader system for Air Flow hoppers. Apparently they were equiped to unload a variety of hoppers. |
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wrote Oct 23, 2009