as i said before i would join your group.
This paper mill is located in Niagara Wisconsin. The NewPage Niagara facility permanently closed in July, 2008 due to a significant decrease in demand for coated paper. The paper machines at the Niagara mill produced approximately 250,000 tons of lightweight coated groundwood papers used in magazines and catalogs. In March, 2009, NewPage sold the NewPage hydroelectric facility in Niagara, Wisconsin to Northbrook Wisconsin, LLC.
It is now shut down and they are tearing this mill down. It is very sad to see this awesome mill just ripped apart basically, they plan to have the buidings laying on ground by december...
As promised here are the pictures of the river running next to the paper mill and mill pictures, i will get more pictures
this is the boiler house up on top of cliff
Inside of warehouse, this is where they would load the boxcars
You can see the steep grade starting and climbing up to the left of warehouse and up top you can see the smoke stacks
You can see the grade coming down to the right and the switchback, this is looking from warehouse down to the switchback
This is looking into the warehouse where they load rolls
As you can see there is scrap everwhere, they are basically scrapping and salvaging what they can and junking the rest, its a shame because this is a small town and when the mill shut down nearly almost all the people in this town worked for this mill so alot of people lost their jobs, alot of people had to sell and move out of this town.
If anyone can get a estimation on how steep this grade might be,the grade gets very steep up past the warehouse. When i get back to this mill i will stand on the grade and try to get a few pictures of looking up and down the grade, its hard to see how steep it actually is from the pictures, they still have alot of security running around the mill so i gotta be careful
I will take more pictures of the size of this mill, its spread out up the hill and down below where i took most of my pictures