We biked to Saugerties for the Hudson Valley Garlic Festival and spotted this monster looming in the morning mist during the ride home:
The end view shows it’s not an optical illusion:
Some Google Maps fiddling reveals the plant, with the excavator atop the first car on the siding, down in the lower-left corner of the image:
A zoomed view, rotated a quarter-turn CCW so it’s not quite so vertiginous:
My search-fu isn’t strong enough to uncover the plant’s name. They’ve obviously been doing something involving gravel and either asphalt or concrete for many years, so it’s not a prank…
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 