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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Soft rain on Vulcan’s ashy pyre… Both of these peaks are dead volcanos, too hard to be totally washed away by storms. As a result, they seem to rise dramatically from the flat valley.
The Harrison flour mill, completed in 1897 and expanded in 1901 and 1902. The tunnel that I am standing on probably transported grain from the elevator to the mill. Medium Format.
This is how the warehouse looks today.
The lights of the active docks keep the retired #6 up all night.
This old Jetta did more offroading than your average lifted tinted loud-exhaust pickup.
The Calumet Elevator offices used to be flanked on both sides by rails. Now, only one side has engines running on it.
The sun sets in front of a huge concrete building—about four times the size of the power plant. Probably a corn storage bin from an ethanol operation that ran here in the 1980s.
Just a couple guys enjoying an industrial ruin.
The elevator tower seems to have been built with expansion of the dock in mind.