Saginaw stack comes tumbling down.
Bay City-based Dore & Associates Contracting Inc. crews are clawing and scraping at a towering smokestack at Lake State Railway and Saginaw Bay Southern Railway, 750 N. Washington.
A crane “just nibbles a little bit off at a time,” said Vicky K. Chmura, railway property administrator.
“The smokestack was starting to crumble at the top,” she said. “It was a safety hazard. We’re happy that it’s not going to drop on somebody’s head.”
The stack carried emissions from a steam powerhouse that ran air tools in a locomotive garage. Today, the garage still is used to store and repair locomotives, she said.
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