Kennecott Smelter Stack
Union Pacific SD40-2s No. 3658, 3517, and 3463 pull the Ogden - Los Angeles manifest at the east switch Lake Point, Utah the evening of June 2, 1990. The landscape here has changed considerably in 30 years. The large pile of smelter slag at left is long gone. Also changed is the Kennecott Copper ore smelter, replaced with a modern facility, painted beige. The 1,215 ft. high Kennecott Smelter Stack remains, and according to Wikipedia is "the tallest free-standing structure west of the Mississippi, the fourth tallest smokestack in the world and the fifty-ninth tallest free-standing structure on earth. It is the only operating smelter chimney left in Utah."
Kennecott Smelter Stack
Union Pacific SD40-2s No. 3658, 3517, and 3463 pull the Ogden - Los Angeles manifest at the east switch Lake Point, Utah the evening of June 2, 1990. The landscape here has changed considerably in 30 years. The large pile of smelter slag at left is long gone. Also changed is the Kennecott Copper ore smelter, replaced with a modern facility, painted beige. The 1,215 ft. high Kennecott Smelter Stack remains, and according to Wikipedia is "the tallest free-standing structure west of the Mississippi, the fourth tallest smokestack in the world and the fifty-ninth tallest free-standing structure on earth. It is the only operating smelter chimney left in Utah."