Showering red-hot coke fresh from the furnaces near the Coal Tower (in the back) was the Quenching Tower’s duty (front).
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Just across the North Dakota border, a rusty Milwaukee Road boxcar sits where it was shoved off the mainline. The grain elevator in the background marks the tracks, which is still used by BNSF.
There is a flipped tram car about a third of the way down the cliff.
An experimental shaft dug in the 1950s and its Hoist House.
The sun shining through one of the buildings; everything was overgrown.
Heavy industrial looks good in cotton candy pink.
With its fresh paint, Lake Superior Elevator “I” almost looks contemporary, but it far outdates its neighbors, It replaced a wooden elevator by the same name in 1919.
A yellow house above the mineshaft.
The old No Trespassing sign, with the Peavey logo still on it.
Boards on the window are like rings on a tree, if you know how to read abandonments.