Bawlmer

[crystlyte]

To think that 3 of youse were just there.....

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-domino1102,0,3819813.story?coll=bal_tab01_layout

I have some great pix of the factory...glad it wan't

Comments

[prairierabbit]

I saw a sugar ship unloading there from a water taxi the Sunday I was there. The taxi captain told us it had been there for a couple of days, and that it had been very low in the water on the first day. They were using equipment with the big digger type claw to unload the sugar.

I hope they are able to keep using the building--it's cool to see old buildings still functioning as more than malls and condos.

[flarenut]

Fuel-air explosions (which this one apparently was from the reporting) can make a heckuva bang. They used to lose grain elevators pretty regularly in the old days, which makes me wonder if someone is cutting some corners.

[prairierabbit]

Around here, there are a lot of old elevators that aren't in use anymore because it is cheaper and safer to build new elevators that meet the standards than to retrofit old building. (Hence the local rock climbing gym in a former grain elevator.) The age of the building makes me wonder what they'll decide to do there--of course, in a deep water port it would be far harder to replace than near railroad tracks in the midwest.

[flarenut]

unless they have comparable capacity elsewhere, they'll probably do whatever will get the facility back in operation the fastest...

I think it's harder to get sugar to blow up than to light flour/grain, but I could be wrong.

[selki]

Oh, no! Not Domino Sugar!

Hadn't heard; thanks for the news.