A derelict Lafarge GE 50-ton side rod locomotive sits near Lafarge's now-decommissioned "Sugar Creek I" cement plant in Sugar Creek, MO (suburb of Kansas City). This unit was built in 5/49 (builder# 29934) for Missouri Portland Cement, the original operator of the Sugar Creek facility.

The new "Sugar Creek II" facility, just over the hill in the background, produces about 1 million tons of cement annually today.

Photo taken from company property with permission.

Photographed by John Joyce, July 28, 2006.
Added to the photo archive by John Joyce, July 30, 2006.
Railroad: Lafarge.

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