Building America -- Union Pacific Freight Train and Cement Plant in Monolith, California
by Darin Volpe
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Building America -- Union Pacific Freight Train and Cement Plant in Monolith, California
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Darin Volpe
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Photograph - Photography
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The cement plant at Monolith, California, just east of Tehachapi stands over a Union Pacific freight train.
The Lehigh Southwest Cement Company is all that's left of the once town of Monolith, California. It started out in 1908, when the City of Los Angeles needed high-grade cement to build the aqueduct to the Owens Valley. The original town was appropriately called Aqueduct, where employees their families lived until the cement plant closed when the aqueduct was completed in 1914. Six years later the townsite was purchased, renamed Monolith, and a new cement plant was built to produce cement for general use. The Monolith Portland Cement Company kept the town until the early 1970's, when better roads and cars had more people choosing to live in nearby Tehachapi. The cement factory continued, and the new plant was built in 1991
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