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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A rail maintenance building. I liked the color of the tree against the peeling red paint.
This was taken before the top of the docks really started to rot-out; now this stretch past the crane is distinctly unsafe to cross. Still, you can’t beat the view of Dock #2 winding into the distance, where the approach is chopped-off before the yard used to extend.
A broken signal light that would indicate to incoming engineers and brakemen the status of the dock deck. The streetlight-style lighting is a retrofit; originally the top of the dock would be lit by strings of lights suspended by towers on each side of the deck… a poor system according to the workers at Allouez who had the same lights.
I’ve been in a lot of different mines. Some on tours, some not. If you pass through Howardsville, Colorado without going on the Old Hundred Mine Tour, you’re missing out. This is what Santiago Tunnel looked like in the 1940s when it was near the end of its life.
This big rusty sphere hides behind the incomplete 5-stack.
The back of the neon sign before it was converted to LED lighting. The image is mirrored so it can be read.
In the many-windowed metal building, the lumberyard buildings and the abandoned starch works buildings are separated by a thick wall of pallets.
A cloud moves across the attic in front of the window. How? A photographer’s secret.
Even with a hundred people parked in front of the lakeside relic, it was invisible.