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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The back of the neon sign before it was converted to LED lighting. The image is mirrored so it can be read.
The end of Dock 5 is warped and bent from a rail accident that left some ore cars swinging like a stringy wrecking ball into the end of the superstructure and accompanying stair. The stairs are still navigable, but it wasn’t recommended by the CN workers that were with me.
HDR matrix panorama. Looking from the grain elevators, now doomed, toward the city between the flour mill’s water tower and tile elevator’s neon sign, the old and new economies seem almost united. Yet the financial centers rise in reality to shadow the now-abandoned industry and manufacturing. The way of things, I’m told.
A US Army Corps of Engineers tug, tied at the end of the pier before the American Victory was parked here.
From the summer a bunch of Australians visited Minnesota.
Looking out the second-floor lighthouse office window. On this visit, the last ice of the season was slowly drifting into the harbor.
The Big Dipper brought its friends into view, and the best seat is 80-feet up.
This picture gives you the idea of how the boat-loading control rooms are set up; they lean over the dock and Lake Superior to be able to see down into the holds of the boats… important, considering how quickly it loaded the boats! An uneven load could put stress on the hull of a laker, increasing the risk it will break and sink.
The former BESCO building in the last light of day.