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 The
Coors Brewing Company, the nation's third-largest
brewer, maintains its world headquarters and
an immense production center in Golden, Colorado,
a western suburb of Denver.
The single largest brewery in the world in
terms of both size and production volume,
the Coors Brewery is a massive industrial
complex that seems to be a city within itself.
The complex is a maze of railroad spurs, railyards,
warehouses, power plants, grain and malt silos
and other industrial components. The plant
is so big, in fact, that the company maintains
a fleet of two red switching locomotives to
move railcars from spur to spur. |
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 The
Conoco Refinery, located in Commerce City,
Colorado, is one of the largest industrial
complexes in Denver and one of the last remaining
relics of Denver's now-fading oil and gas
industry.
Still active and refining petroleum to this
day, the Conoco Refinery is served by numerous
rail spurs and by trucks. A short distance
from Interstate 70 and a location on both
the Union Pacific and Burlington Northern
Santa Fe railroads, not to mention pipelines,
keep the commodities coming and going out
of this busy facility. |
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 Located
just northeast of downtown Denver, the Xcel
Energy Denver Power Plant provides much of
the power for Denver County and some parts
of the metropolitan area.
The power plant is an impressive sight to
behold on cold days, when plumes of smoke
rise thousands of feet into the air. At night,
the smokestacks activate several flashing
red aircraft warning lights which seem to
rival downtown for nighttime attention. |
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 Anheuser-Busch,
the world's largest brewing company, maintains
a large brewery in Fort Collins, a city some
60 miles north of Denver.
The A-B plant is one of the largest if not
the largest industrial operation in northern
Colorado. The facility brews, packages and
distributes many of A-B's leading brands to
markets in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico,
Nebraska, Montana and other western states.
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