Looking at The Windy City from the top of the coal tower. The pond you see is the former ACME Coke coal yard.
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Workers’ lockers, strewn across Main Street, yet still out of the way.
For a short time, CN mounted flood lights atop the abandoned dock.
Heavy industrial looks good in cotton candy pink.
Don’t know what’s heavier… the bricks or shadows.
Calumet stands at the side of the Union Pacific railyard.
From the 1909 addition, it’s obvious how much water it takes to carry a single wall to, into and through the cracks between the floor tiles: exactly one roof’s worth.
The top of Dock 4 was too dangerous to explore, but this panorama gives you an idea of the view (and how rotten the wood was).
Designed by Taylor himself, the spring house was the site of many parties in its day. You can imagine sipping fresh-tapped whiskey here with your Sunday clothes with soft music and the sounds of the river mixing in the background. Note the key-hole-shaped spring hole.
The bottom area of the smokestacks house storage spaces. The windows of these rooms that were never completed line up perfect.