November 13th's installment is that of industry rolling on

But first, from the bedroom balcony:

Colorful academia - here CU Denver from above

Colorful Colorado - here the asphalt quarry to the North of Golden

Just north of Highway 72 are some uplifts; with Rocky Mountain Regional (aka JeffCo) Airport in the middle ground

Then, from the living room balcony:

Completely unrelated but here's a view of Colfax and Broadway

Now, East we go to Arapahoe and Downing Sts:

Where traffic flies

Cops may stop - but they do travel fast

And lots missing houses once common are getting filled in like a child growing adult teeth

Next, almost to the Denver Rock Drill site:

We see a building growing from where a building was captured back in 12/10/20

(To see the old building look for the white walls above the caption "usually things move in only one-way" and similarly near "Yet still we can see the industrial"):

Ominously for more old, low, buildings a crane looms above the other side of the block too

In the Elyria:

Food desert? The liquor store had a very friendly proprietor and he did sell single-serve bags of chips; not sure what else other than liquid "meals" though; the other store looked closed since perhaps the date above the door.

Hard to grow-up on an alley to nowhere with industry lurking behind the roadblocks and across the tracks

Freight rumbles past here

Not only does I-70 cut across this neighborhood to the North; but we see the tracks bisect this neighborhood too

To get to the other side of the neighborhood there's quite the colorful solution

Don't get high on High St. with the methane extraction vents aplenty. I failed to take a picture from Elyria Park across the street... Breathe deeply while exercising! This is the Denver Coliseum parking lot on top of a former landfill apparently (per this Denver Elyria/Swansea Neighborhood Assessment from Nov. 7th, 2003).

Greenhouse gas capture? Not quite that easy but the Rockies beg for attention regardless.

Eaton Metals - 4800 York.

Eaton is still in business and headquartered out of Denver, with plants in Salt Lake City and Pocatello too. They make massive rolled steel products and were "Fabricat[ors] of The Heaviest Object To Be Transported On The Federal Highway System - an autoclave measuring 76' long x 22'6" in dia. & weighing approx. 1,000,000 lbs!" See their site for more. Under call number F44233, the Denver Public Library has an undated photo of the buildings from the first half of the 1900's titled "Eaton Metal Products Company building complex".

Down York and Columbine; where tires go, cows still(?!) grow and buildings fall into disrepair.

Is this a Hell's Angels outpost; who flies a flag over a boarded up building?!

Whoever is flying the flag isn't owning up on their sign but next door's sign sure looks shiny and new

Colorado Tire Recycling has a LOT of rubber to hopefully not burn.

Columbine Street has a rather bleak dead-end - but notice the massive hay stack? Google Maps satellite photos show 31 pens in what looks like some sort of cow operation behind that fence.

Suncor and refinery-land:

As a prelude to Refinery-Land one drives Brighton Blvd; you may also turn down Colorado Blvd. If you decide to really look around you'll find a neighborhood on 64th ave. and a closed solid waste transfer-station.

I don't know what obsolete transportation equipment might be nor what specialists might need to know about it - but they're on the right

Colorado Blvd turns into the very windy 60th ave - and that's where Sand Creek comes in with its refinery views and multi-modal transport of all kinds.

Starting our multi-modal tour after pipelines, we have swimming, flying, rolling on steel and rubber wheels - and my camera missed the two bikers who passed me by too.

60th Ave has a 9' clearance due to some impressively old trestles; don't be fooled by I-270's bridge concrete - it's perhaps the more rickety conveyance

Snow-covered and purple mountain's majesty reign even over this hollowed and polluted ground

On to the warehouse wasteland of 46th ave and Colorado (just north of I-70) to 48th ave and Monaco

Appropriately we move into Commerce City from Denver. The graffiti rightly says: it's gasé, being it is across from the Sand Creek Industrial Site's Holy Landfill (see pgs. 20-23 of the I-70 EIS for more)

Mmm, vapor(?) recovery vault and refrigerated food trailers; such a savory montage, right?

Colorado: land of heavy-industry and mountains

Of all of today's shooting, this area was the most inhabited by those who didn't inhabit much. Also, this plumbing warehouse had the only train car sheds I noticed, they looked to be quite old but couldn't find other signs of their history.