Article: Moving mountains: a fleet of carriers armed with attachments facilitates a controlled demolition in a small Colorado town.(JOB STORY)

Tucked away in a small mountain town, Progress Metals Reclamation of Ashland, Ky., is helping return some Rocky Mountain land to its natural beauty.

The demolition contractor, a division of Progress Rail Services, Albertville, Ala., which is itself a division of equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, Ill., recently began the demolition of an abandoned coal mill in Paonia, Colo., a small community with a population of just more than 1,500 people about 70 miles southeast of Grand Junction, Colo., in the central western part of the state.

Project Manager Allen Bailes of Progress Metals and his team had a tall order on hand when the mill's owner, ...

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